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Where Poppies Blow

Full title: Where Poppies Blow
ISBN: 9780297869269
ISBN 10: 0297869264
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Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Edition: 1
Num. pages: 400
Binding: Hardcover
Language: en
Published on: 2017

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Synopsis

Machine Generated Contents Note: Ch. I For King And Countryside: The Natural History Of The British -- Interstice 1 Birds Of The Battlefield, Western Front 1914 -- 18 -- Ch. Ii And The Birds Are Beautiful Still: Avifauna And Men On The Western Front -- Interstice 2 Poems About Birds Written By Serving Soldiers -- Ch. Iii All The Lovely Horses: Equus As Beast Of Burden, War Horse, Comrade -- Interstice 3 Poems About Horses Written By Serving Soldiers -- Ch. Iv Of Lice And Men: Trench Pests, Vermin And Disease -- Interstice 4 The Statistics Of Disease -- Ch. V The Bloom Of Life: Trench And Pow Gardens, Flowers And Botanists At The Front -- Interstice 5 Nature And The Ancre Battlefield, 30 July 1917 -- Ch. Vi The Dogs (and Cats, Rabbits, Etc.) Of War: Trench Pets -- Interstice 6 A Complete List Of Soldiers' Pets And Mascots -- Ch. Vii A-hunting And A-shooting (and A-fishing) We Will Go: Field Sports And Poaching At The Front -- Interstice 7 British And Empire Naturalists Who Died On Active Service 1914 -- 1919 -- Ch. Viii And Quiet Flowed The Somme: War's End. John Lewis-stempel. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.