![]() ![]() 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. Nature was also sometimes a curse - rats, spiders and lice abounded, and disease could be biblical.īut above all, nature healed, and, despite the bullets and blood, it inspired men to endure. 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. Where Poppies Blow ISBN 13: 9780297869269 Where Poppies Blow Lewis-Stempel, John 3.95 avg rating (160 ratings by Goodreads) Hardcover ISBN 10: 0297869264ISBN 13: 9780297869269 Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2017 This specific ISBN edition is currently not available. 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. John Lewis-Stempel is the author of The Wild Life, Meadowland, Where Poppies Grow, The Running Hare, The Secret Life of the Owl and most recently, The Wood. ![]() 'If it weren't for the birds, what a hell it would be.'ĭuring the Great War, soldiers lived inside the ground, closer to nature than many humans had lived for centuries. The natural history of the Western Front during the First World War ![]() Winner of the 2017 Wainwright Golden Beer Book Prize for nature writing ![]()
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