Linda Granfield Celebrating a decade in print, this lovely anniversary edition of In Flanders Fields: The Story of the Poem by John McCrae tells the famous wartime poem and the stories behind it. The author weaves lines of the poem (“In Flanders fields the poppies blow / Between the crosses, row by row”) with details about the poet’s life and the First World War. The Canadian-born McCrae, who served as a medical officer during the war, wrote the fifteen-line poem after experiencing the horrific death of a close friend
Janet Wilson (Illustrator)  

copyright 2005 , signed by the illustrator Janet Wilson on in side cover does have other writing ,book in good condition , beautiful artwork .