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John McCrae: Beyond Flanders Fields

By Susan Raby-Dunne

Book information

Publisher
Heritage House
Year
2016
ISBN
9781772031584, 9781772031577, 9781772031591
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
5 MB (5743179 bytes)
Series
Amazing Stories
Pages
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Time added
2022-09-27 18:24:59
HIS027090HIS027160HistoryMilitaryNonfiction

Description

Shortlisted, 2018 Forest of Reading Golden Oak Award Most Canadians are familiar with John McCrae through his iconic poem "In Flanders Fields," which was penned on the battlefields of the First World War and remains a symbol of remembrance to this day. Although he will always be remembered as a war poet, the Guelph, Ontario, native was a physician, a university professor, and a veteran of the Second Boer War before he ever laid eyes on the carnage at Flanders Fields. Citing rarely seen diary entries and letters, as well as never-before-published photos of McCrae's early life, military historian and McCrae enthusiast Susan Raby-Dunne tells the complete story of John McCrae—a man whose final chapter of life made him immortal, but who accomplished so much and helped so many in the decades before.

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