The Canadian army doctor who wrote “In Flanders Fields” during the second battle of Ypres left behind a small body of other poems on war, death, sleep and remembrance, collected here after his death in 1918. Andrew Macphail’s long essay follows, a portrait of McCrae’s character drawn from his letters from the front.
The poem that made the poppy a symbol of remembrance, here with the life and verse of the man who wrote it. Download the free EPUB.