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By John Lewis-Stempel

Winner of the 2017 Wainwright Golden Beer publication Prize for nature writing

The normal historical past of the Western entrance throughout the First international War

'If it were not for the birds, what a hell it can be.'

through the nice warfare, squaddies lived contained in the flooring, towards nature than many people had lived for hundreds of years. Animals supplied convenience and curiosity to fill the clean hours within the trenches - bird-watching, for example, was once most likely the one hottest pastime between officials. infantrymen went fishing in flooded shell holes, shot hares in no-man's land for the pot, and planted gardens of their trenches and billets. Nature used to be additionally occasionally a curse - rats, spiders and lice abounded, and disorder should be biblical.

But particularly, nature healed, and, regardless of the bullets and blood, it encouraged males to suffer. Where Poppies Blow is the original tale of the way nature gave the British infantrymen of the good battle a cause to struggle, and the need to head on.

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