The Poppy by Nicholas J Saunders
Our most renowned archaeologist of the First World War unravels the tangled history of the beloved, iconic flower‘Saunders movingly presents the poppy in its beauty, its tragedy and its healing power as a potent symbol every year in our national and global remembrance of loss’
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Nicholas J. Saunders is the world’s leading authority on the archaeology of the First World War. A lecturer in the Department of Archaeology and Anthropology at the University of Bristol, he undertook the first-ever study of the Great War’s material culture and anthropology during his tenure as a British Academy Senior Research Fellow, and his exhibition of trench art from the war was for five years a centrepiece of the ‘In Flanders Fields’ Museum in Ypres, Belgium. The author of more than twenty books and dozens of academic monographs, including Killing Time, Alexander’s Tomb and Trench Art, he has appeared in numerous documentaries for the BBC, the National Geographic Channel, and the History Channel. He lives in Bristol.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781851687053 |
| ISBN 10 | 185168705X |
| Title | The Poppy |
| Author | Nicholas J Saunders |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Oneworld Publications |
| Year published | 2013-10-17 |
| Number of pages | 320 |
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