In Flanders Fields

Independent shop in Phinney Ridge

Available from Zoo Store when we last checked, in the last two days. Sold from the shop’s own store; the price there is the one that counts.

In early 1915, the death of a young friend on the battlefields of Ypres inspired Canadian soldier, field surgeon and poet John McCrae to write "In Flanders Fields." Within months of the poem's December 1915 publication in the British magazine Punch it became part of the collective consciousness in North America and Europe, and its extraordinary power has endured over the decades and across generations. In this anthology, Canada's finest historians, novelists and poets contemplate the evolving me