Keiron Pim

For king and countryside

Amid the horrors of the Western Front, British soldiers were drawn nostalgically to bird-watching and botany, as John Lewis-Stempel’s touching book informs us

  • Where Poppies Blow: The British Soldier, Nature, the Great War

    John Lewis-Stempel

    Weidenfeld, pp. 400

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