pubOne.info thank you for your continued support and wish to present you this new edition. {From a} Facsimile of an autograph copy of the poem “In Flanders Fields

Macphail's writing - characterized by clarity of expression and support for unpopular positions - allowed him to develop and document many of the important political, social, and intellectual themes of his time. He argued for the reorganization of the British Empire to reflect the growing importance of Canada and against such modern trends and movements as utilitarian education, feminism, industrialization, and urbanization. A strong advocate for the rejuvenation of rural life, he carried ...

Macphail's writing - characterized by clarity of expression and support for unpopular positions - allowed him to develop and document many of the important political social and intellectual themes of his time. He argued for the reorganization of the British Empire to reflect the growing importance of Canada and against such modern trends and movements as utilitarian education feminism industrialization and urbanization. A strong advocate for the rejuvenation of rural life he carried out ...

“In Flanders Fields,” the iconic poem which gives its title to this collection of poems and selected prose, is one of Canada’s — and the world’s — best known poems of the Great War. It was written in 1915 by Canadian John McCrae, an artillery man, poet, and medical doctor, upon the death of a friend and fellow soldier during the Second Battle of Ypres in 1915.This is a faithful reissue of the Canadian first edition of McCrae’s writings, originally issued by his friends in 1919 in h...