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In Flanders Fields, and Other Poems
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This collection gathers the poetry of Canadian physician and soldier John McCrae, including his famous World War I poem "In Flanders Fields," along with an essay by Andrew Macphail on McCrae's life. It suits readers interested in wartime poetry and First World War history.
John McCrae
Lieutenant-Colonel John McCrae was a Canadian poet, physician, author, artist and soldier during World War I and a surgeon during the Second Battle of Ypres, in Belgium. He is best known for writing the famous war memorial poem "In Flanders Fields". McCrae died of pneumonia near the end of the war. His famous poem is a threnody, a genre of lament.
Biography from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Portrait: via Wikipedia (see source).
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