A crown of life : the world of John McCrae
Born in Canada, McCrae served in the South African War before carving out a career as an eminent doctor. It was during the Great War, while serving in 1915 as both an artillery and medical officer in the Second Battle of Ypres, that he wrote his famous poem In Flanders Fields, that was inspirational in the adoption of the poppy as the symbol of remembrance.Set against a background of nearly half a century of history, Dianne Graves brings alive in fascinating detail John McCrae and his world; some of the people he knew and met among them Rudyard Kipling, Leo Amery, Sir Alexander Fleming, and Stephen Leacock, the threads that linked their lives; and the story of four people who, after the war, were instrumental in the events that led to poppies being manufactured and sold to raise funds.
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- ISBN: 9781896941677
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xii, 367 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 23 cm - Edition Second ed.
- Publisher Montreal : Robin Brass Studio, [2012]
- Copyright ©2012
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Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Crown of Life : The World of John Mccrae
Section | Section Description | Page Number |
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Preface | p. ix | |
Prologue: In the Fields of Flanders May 1915 | p. 1 | |
1 | "From the lone shieling" â¼ 1849-1872 | p. 3 |
2 | "My little lad for a soldier boy" â¼ 1872-1892 | p. 12 |
3 | "Amid my books I lived the hurrying years" â¼ 1892-1897 | p. 27 |
4 | "Yet couraged for the battles of the day" â¼ 1897-1900 | p. 47 |
5 | "That day of battle in the dusty heat" â¼ 1900-1901 | p. 68 |
6 | "Labour hath other recompense than rest" â¼ 1901-1904 | p. 91 |
7 | "The careless song, the cup, the love of friends" â¼ 1905-1908 | p. 113 |
8 | "We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow" â¼ 1908--1910 | p. 136 |
9 | "They do not see the shadows grow" â¼ 1911-1913 | p. 157 |
10 | "And lo! Cometh the Night" January-October â¼ 1914 | p. 175 |
11 | "Tell them, O Guns, that we have heard their call" â¼ October 1914 - March 1915 | p. 195 |
12 | "Some yielded, No, not we!" â¼ April-May 1915 | p. 210 |
13 | "The hand we gave the weary and the weak" â¼ June 1915 - December 1916 | p. 239 |
14 | "To you from failing hands we throw the torch" â¼ January 1917 - January 1918 | p. 266 |
15 | "We will onward till we win or fall" â¼ January 1918 - May 1919 | p. 291 |
16 | "We will keep the faith for which they died" â¼ 1919-2012 | p. 303 |
Epilogue: "Be thou faithful unto death and I will give thee a crown of life" | p. 323 | |
Endnotes | p. 329 | |
Bibliography | p. 349 | |
Index | p. 357 |