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Where Poppies Blow - The British Soldier, Nature, the Great War (Paperback)
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Where Poppies Blow - The British Soldier, Nature, the Great War (Paperback)
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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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