Old soldiers never die. They simply pass into the ranks of phantom legions and ghostly garrisons that have inspired vivid tales of their exploits throughout history. They live in the shadowy twilight of old battlefields, and their endlessly marching footsteps break the silence of summer nights. Though they fly many different flags, they always struggle with the same opponent: our natural disbelief in their existence.

Visions of Ghost Armies introduces you to a side of war you might never have imagined possible. In more than one hundred true stories--reported by eyewitnesses and sometimes verified by the media--you will read eerie and haunting accounts of spirit soldiers and armies of the night who still fight battles decades to centuries after their wars have ended. Virtually every war recorded in history has produced its own tales of the afterlife. Read about:

The lost Roman legion that vanished without a trace, save for the sounds of their ghostly footsteps heard thousands of years later

The Confederate dead who rose to a bugle call and marched off to war half a century after their burial

The ethereal noises of a Civil War battle heard in Virginia more than 100 years after it was fought

The phantom WWII fighter plane that fell to the ground in a fiery crash - and then mysteriously vanished

The spectral GI who kept a soldier from boarding a doomed transport plane in Vietnam