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The Poppy: A History of Conflict, Loss, Remembrance, and Redemption

English

By (author): Nicholas J. Saunders

The definitive history of the ever-enduring icon

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 immortalized in John McCraes moving poem became a worldwide icon. Yet the poppy has a longer history, as the tell-tale sign of human cultivation of the land, of the ravages of war, and of the desire to escape the earthly realm through opium dreams or morphine drips. From the ancient Egyptian fights over prized potions to the addicts of the American Civil War, to the British entanglements in the Opium Wars with China and the struggle to end Afghanistans tribal narcotics trade, there is the poppy.

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Product Details
  • Dimensions: 129 x 198mm
  • Publication Date: 03 Apr 2014
  • Publisher: Oneworld Publications
  • Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9781780744049

About Nicholas J. Saunders

Nicholas J. Saunders is the worlds leading authority on the anthropological archaeology of the First world war. A lecturer in the department of Archaeology and Anthropology at the University of Bristol he undertook the first-ever study of Great war material culture as a British Academy Senior Research Fellow at University College London between 1998 and 2004. His exhibition of trench art from the war was for five years a centrepiece of the In Flanders Fields Museum in Ypres Belgium. He has published more than twenty-five books including Trench Art Killing Time Alexanders Tomb and Matters of Conflict and has appeared in documentaries for the BBC the National Geographic Channel and the History Channel. He co-directs two major Great war archaeological projects in Jordan and Slovenia and lives in west Sussex.

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