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Where Poppies Blow: The British Soldier, Nature, the Great War by John Lewis-Stempel (Paperback, 2017)

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Title: Where Poppies Blow. 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.

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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.

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PublisherOrion Publishing Group
ISBN-139781780224916
eBay Product ID (ePID)239944356

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Book TitleWhere Poppies Blow: the British Soldier, Nature, the Great War
AuthorJohn Lewis-Stempel
FormatPaperback
LanguageEnglish
TopicWildlife, History
Publication Year2017
TypeTextbook
Number of Pages400 Pages

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Item Height128mm
Item Width197mm
Item Weight284g

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Title_AuthorJohn Lewis-Stempel
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited Kingdom

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  • by 1505pauline
    25 Jul, 2018

    Wonderful mix of history and nature

    This book describes the very close relationship that soldiers had between themselves and the animals and plants during the First World War. The chapters are divided into particular type of animal, for example birds, wildlife, horse or plants. The narrative is richly sown with quotations from soldiers letters, diaries and other interesting sources. I do not usually choose to read non-fiction but I found it hard to put down this book, it was so well written and interesting.

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    Enthralling

    Very well researched and written

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