Where Poppies Blow

Author : John Lewis-Stempel
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 0297869272
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Where Poppies Blow written by John Lewis-Stempel and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2016-11-03 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2017 Wainwright Golden Beer Book Prize for nature writing The natural history of the Western Front during the First World War 'If it weren't for the birds, what a hell it would be.' During the Great War, soldiers lived inside the ground, closer to nature than many humans had lived for centuries. Animals provided comfort and interest to fill the blank hours in the trenches - bird-watching, for instance, was probably the single most popular hobby among officers. Soldiers went fishing in flooded shell holes, shot hares in no-man's land for the pot, and planted gardens in their trenches and billets. Nature was also sometimes a curse - rats, spiders and lice abounded, and disease could be biblical. But above all, nature healed, and, despite the bullets and blood, it inspired men to endure. Where Poppies Blow is the unique story of how nature gave the British soldiers of the Great War a reason to fight, and the will to go on.

Author : John Lewis-Stempel
Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
ISBN 13 : 0297869272
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Where Poppies Blow written by John Lewis-Stempel and published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson. This book was released on 2016-11-03 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2017 Wainwright Golden Beer Book Prize for nature writing The natural history of the Western Front during the First World War 'If it weren't for the birds, what a hell it would be.' During the Great War, soldiers lived inside the ground, closer to nature than many humans had lived for centuries. Animals provided comfort and interest to fill the blank hours in the trenches - bird-watching, for instance, was probably the single most popular hobby among officers. Soldiers went fishing in flooded shell holes, shot hares in no-man's land for the pot, and planted gardens in their trenches and billets. Nature was also sometimes a curse - rats, spiders and lice abounded, and disease could be biblical. But above all, nature healed, and, despite the bullets and blood, it inspired men to endure. Where Poppies Blow is the unique story of how nature gave the British soldiers of the Great War a reason to fight, and the will to go on.

Author : Hilary Robinson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780957124585
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Where the Poppies Now Grow written by Hilary Robinson and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The carefree childhood for Ben and his best friend Ray becomes a distant memory when they join the army to serve their country. But, in the midst of battle can their friendship survive?

Author : Michael Morpurgo
Publisher : Scholastic UK
ISBN 13 : 1407188801
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Poppy Field written by Michael Morpurgo and published by Scholastic UK. This book was released on 2018-10-04 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new wartime classic from two legends of children's literature! Michael Morpurgo and Michael Foreman have teamed up with the British Legion to tell a new story inspired by the history of the poppy. When John McCrae wrote his famous poem "In Flanders Field" among the trenches of war-torn Belgium, neither he nor a local village girl who saves a discarded draft of it could know what enormous power that poem would have on generations to come.

Author : Barbara E. Walsh
Publisher : Astra Publishing House
ISBN 13 : 1635924367
Total Pages : 42 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Poppy Lady written by Barbara E. Walsh and published by Astra Publishing House. This book was released on 2020-09-08 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here is the inspiring story behind the Veterans Day red poppy, a symbol that honors the service and sacrifices of our veterans. When American soldiers entered World War I, Moina Belle Michael, a schoolteacher from Georgia, knew she had to act. Some of the soldiers were her students and friends. Almost single-handedly, Moina worked to establish the red poppy as the symbol to honor and remember soldiers. And she devoted the rest of her life to making sure the symbol would last forever. Thanks to her hard work, that symbol remains strong today. Author Barbara Elizabeth Walsh and artist Layne Johnson worked with experts, primary documents, and Moina's great-nieces to better understand Moina's determination to honor the war veterans. A portion of the book's proceeds will support the National Military Family Association's Operation Purple®, which benefits children of the US Military.

Author : Linda Granfield
Publisher : Fitzhenry & Whiteside Limited
ISBN 13 : 9780773759251
Total Pages : 30 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book In Flanders Fields written by Linda Granfield and published by Fitzhenry & Whiteside Limited. This book was released on 1997-09-01 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of John McCrae's World War I poem interweaves the poet's words with information about the war, details of daily life in the trenches, accounts of McCrae's experience in his field hospital, and the circumstances that contributed to the poem's creation. Simultaneous.

Author : Nicholas J. Saunders
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1780741855
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Poppy written by Nicholas J. Saunders and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-10-01 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the aftermath of the horrific trench warfare of the First World War, the poppy – sprouting across the killing fields of France and Belgium, then immortalised in John McCrae’s moving poem – became a worldwide icon. Yet the poppy has a longer history, as the tell-tale sign of human cultivation of the land, of the ravages of war and of the desire to escape the earthly realm through inspired Romantic opium dreams or the grim reality of morphine drips. This is a story spanning three thousand years, from the ancient Egyptian fights over prized medicinal potions to the addicted veterans returning home from the American Civil War, from the British political machinations during the Opium Wars with China to the struggle to end Afghanistan’s tribal narcotics trade. Through it all, there stands the transformative poppy. Nicholas J. Saunders brings us the definitive history of this ever-enduring but humble flower of the fields, a story that is at turns tragic, eye-opening and, most essentially, life-affirming – a gift to us all.

Author : John McCrae
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 99 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book In Flanders Fields, and Other Poems written by John McCrae and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-10-05 with total page 99 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In Flanders Fields, and Other Poems" by John McCrae. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.

Author : Robert Gaudi
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0698411528
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book African Kaiser written by Robert Gaudi and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2017-01-31 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The incredible true account of World War I in Africa and General Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck, the last undefeated German commander. “Let me say straight out that if all military histories were as thrilling and well written as Robert Gaudi’s African Kaiser, I might give up reading fiction and literary bio­graphy… Gaudi writes with the flair of a latter-day Macaulay. He sets his scenes carefully and describes naval and military action like a novelist.”—Michael Dirda, The Washington Post As World War I ravaged the European continent, a completely different theater of war was being contested in Africa. And from this very different kind of war, there emerged a very different kind of military leader.... At the beginning of the twentieth century, the continent of Africa was a hotbed of international trade, colonialism, and political gamesmanship. So when World War I broke out, the European powers were forced to contend with one another not just in the bloody trenches, but in the treacherous jungle. And it was in that unforgiving land that General Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck would make history. With the now-legendary Schutztruppe (Defensive Force), von Lettow-Vorbeck and a small cadre of hardened German officers fought alongside their fanatically devoted native African allies as equals, creating the first truly integrated army of the modern age. African Kaiser is the fascinating story of a forgotten guerrilla campaign in a remote corner of Equatorial Africa in World War I; of a small army of ultraloyal African troops led by a smaller cadre of rugged German officers—of white men and black who fought side by side. But mostly it is the story of von Lettow-Vorbeck—the only undefeated German commmander in the field during World War I and the last to surrender his arms.

Author : Candace Ward
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 048611323X
Total Pages : 83 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book World War One British Poets written by Candace Ward and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-03-05 with total page 83 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVRich selection of powerful, moving verse includes Brooke's "The Soldier," Owen's "Anthem for Doomed Youth," "In Flanders Fields," by Lieut. Col. McCrae, more by Hardy, Kipling, many others. /div