Where Poppies Blow by John Lewis-Stempel
By John Lewis-Stempel
Winner of the 2017 Wainwright Golden Beer e-book Prize for nature writing
The traditional heritage of the Western entrance through the First international War
'If it were not for the birds, what a hell it should be.'
through the nice struggle, squaddies lived contained in the flooring, in the direction of nature than many people had lived for hundreds of years. Animals supplied convenience and curiosity to fill the clean hours within the trenches - bird-watching, for example, used to be most likely the one hottest pastime between officials. squaddies went fishing in flooded shell holes, shot hares in no-man's land for the pot, and planted gardens of their trenches and billets. Nature used to be additionally occasionally a curse - rats, spiders and lice abounded, and illness should be biblical.
But specifically, nature healed, and, regardless of the bullets and blood, it encouraged males to suffer. Where Poppies Blow is the original tale of the way nature gave the British infantrymen of the nice battle a cause to struggle, and the desire to head on.
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