1917 Red Banners White Mantle is not just another history of the First World War Dr Carroll unveils for us a contest that embraces Heaven Earth and Hell whose protagonists include the devilish revolutionary Lenin the demonic Rasputin the saintly Charles last Emperor of the Austro Hungarian Empire and above all Our Lady of Fatima who appeared with a message of penance conversion and peace to three children in Portugal who themselves knew nothing of the titanic struggle of the earthly powers in Flanders fields 1917 was truly an annus mirabilis a year of wonders of human blunders madness and desperation of demonic energies unleashed in the world yet for which the divine solicitude was revealed in the appearances of Our Lady at Fatima and confirmed with the miracle of the dancing sun Warren H Carroll holds his Ph D in history from Columbia University and is Chairman of the History Department at Christendom College which he founded in 1977 serving as its pre