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In Flanders Fields: 100 Years

Writing on War, Loss and Rememberance


  • Random House US
  • Knopf
In early 1915, the death of a young friend on the battlefields of Ypres inspired Canadian soldier, field surgeon and poet John McCrae to write 'In Flanders Fields'. Within months of the poem's December 1915 publication in the British magazine Punch it became part of the collective consciousness in North America and Europe, and its extraordinary power has endured over the decades and across generations. In this anthology, Canada's finest historians, novelists and poets contemplate the evolving meaning.

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Publisher Random House US
ISBN 9780345810250
Publication date October 2015
Edition Hardback
Dimensions 228 x 139 mm
Pages 272
Language(s) Eng. ed.
Exhibition Knopf
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In early 1915, the death of a young friend on the battlefields of Ypres inspired Canadian soldier, field surgeon and poet John McCrae to write """"In Flanders Fields."""" Within months of the poem's December 1915 publication in the British magazine Punch it became part of the collective consciousness in North America and Europe, and its extraordinary power has endured over the decades and across generations. In this anthology, Canada's finest historians, novelists and poets contemplate the evolving meaning of the poem.