cover image Where Poppies Grow: A World War I Companion

Where Poppies Grow: A World War I Companion

Linda Granfield. Fitzhenry & Whiteside, $16.95 (48pp) ISBN 978-0-7737-3319-0

History comes to life in a trio of titles. Where Poppies Grow: A World War I Companion by Linda Granfield illustrates the tragic era in scrapbook style. Throughout, vintage postcards (written by soldiers to their loved ones at home), photographs and memorabilia such as propaganda posters, books and ""Infantry Training"" cards that were inserted in cigarette packs share space with accessible and informative text. The title references a line from ""In Flanders Fields,"" which Granfield calls ""the most popular poem of the Great War."" (May)