Lychgate, The Entrance to the Path
1945, Hugh Dowding's second title on Spiritualism and Life after Death
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Printing Details
First edition, second impression. Hardback in dustwrapper. 19 × 12.5cm, 128pp.
Hugh Dowding was a senior RAF officer, commanding Fighter Command during the Battle of Britain in 1940. He also had an intense interest in spiritualism and, in his retirement, wrote four book of which this is the second. Written in 1945, with war deaths still heavy in the mind of the population, this book was meant to comfort the mourner and to sustain them in their loneliness. From the preface, "This book has a mission in making the facts of life after death better known. Lord Dowding having himself been overwhelmed by the evidence in favour of survival, has written down the facts which have made him realize that the matter is a vital one for those thousands who have lost loved ones in the Services."
Dowding apparently once asked his local vicar what he should say to the families of those killed who asked him where their loved ones were now, and the vicar replied "Tell them, they are with God". This didn't cut the mustard for Dowding who then pursued spiritualism in trying to find a different answer.
Condition
The book is good, but being printed on wartime economy paper there is some tanning. The binding is secure. Some bumping to the boards and fading to the spine ends. The dustwrapper is tatty, with loss and creasing to the edges but nevertheless remains quite a rare survival.
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Price
£25.00
