The Poppy - A Cultural History from Ancient Egypt to Flanders Fields to Afghanistan by Nicholas J. Saunders

The Poppy - A Cultural History from Ancient Egypt to Flanders Fields to Afghanistan

Nicholas J. Saunders

320 pages • first pub 2013 (editions)

nonfiction history informative slow-paced
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"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 hi...

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