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In Flanders Field: The Story of John McCrae
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Called the most talented Canadian physician of his time, John McCrae (1872-1918) achieved international fame by his poem, “In Flanders Fields.” The most popular English-language poem of the First World War, it has made the poppy inseparable from memories of war.
John McCrae's life was a microcosm of the years of tumultuous changes in late Victorian Canada. Son of Scottish pioneers, he fought in the Boer and First World Wars, taught medicine art McGill University, was a member of the influential English-speaking elite of Montreal, and a friend of the great and near-great. Deeply religious, he was marked by kindliness and laughter.
This book describes the full-blooded vigour of John McCrae's early and middle years, the writing of “In Flanders Fields” at the height of a battle in 1915, the impact of the poem, and the tragedy of his last years working in a Canadian hospital in war torn France.
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| Weight | 0.330 kg |
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| Dimensions | 22.3 × 15.1 × 0.80 cm |
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