In Flanders Fields

Field surgeon and poet, John McCrae, was inspired to write "In Flanders Fields" after the death of a young friend in early 1915 on the battlefields of Ypres. Within months of the poem's December 1915 publication it had become part of the collective consciousness around the English-speaking world. It's extraordinary power has endured for decades and across generations and it is Canada's most famous poem. This book contains reflections from an assortment of people on the poem and their thoughts on war.