Poppy Patch Prints and the crucial lack of

and the crucial lack of coordination between Germany’s First and Second Armies

the grandest museums and cathedrals housed the wounded

including the mutinous state of the French army

from conscription to its aftermath

inexperienced leadership

Poppy Patch Prints and the crucial lack ofDescription About the poppy: Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae, a noted Canadian physician before the war, served with Canadas First Brigade Artillery as a surgeon at a field hospital in Belgium. As he worked within sight of poppies blooming across old battlefields and fresh graves, he crafted a poignant testament against war and wasted lives that arguably became the Great Wars most famous poem, In Flanders Fields. McCrae himself died from disease in