![]() ![]() 'From traumatized, trench-bound British soldiers caught up in the carnage of the First World War, birdwatching and botany offered solace. ' Manages what might have seemed impossible: to find a new perspective on the Great War' - Mark Smith * Glasgow Herald * Moving, strangely life-affirming' - Clive Aslet * Country Life * ![]() 'Makes an important contribution to the literature by studying the British soldiers' relationship with Nature. ' Wonderful, beautifully written and often deeply moving' - Lawrence James * The Times * This book, which recounts the lives of our frontline soldiers from the ground up, is a truly wondrous and original work with an appeal far beyond military history' - Charlotte Heathcote * Daily Express Christmas Books * 'In Where Poppies Blow, the nature writer, historian and farmer presents us with a beautiful and meticulous account of soldiers' relationship with nature. ![]() 'What makes Where Poppies Blow so freshly moving is the picture it paints of the reverence, love and kindness the natural world can engender, even in the most hellish conditions as Philip Gosse of the Royal Army Medical Corps called it, "medicine for the mind and solace for the soul"' - Melissa Harrison * Financial Times * ![]()
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