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If you want to read a novel of WWI, this is it!
Not the easiest book to read, but Kershaw's biography is essential for an understanding of arguably a most significant figure of the 20th century.
In GWTW how many brothers and sisters did Katie Scarlett O'Hara have?
Hitler: Hubris, 1889-1936 by In the December 18, 1915 issue of Punch magazine an anonymous bit of verse first appeared. From this obscure beginning the poem would become the most recognized verse to come out of that Great War which we now know as World War I. Dr. John McCrae (1872-1918) was a Canadian physician who had served in the Boer War, and found himself at the Western Front after a battle sitting and thinking about a friend who had been killed that very day. Saddened by his personal loss he took pen in had and wrote "In Flanders Fields":
In Flanders Fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses , row on row
That mark our place; and in the sky
The Larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.
We are the dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders Fields.
Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders Fields.
John McCrae died at the Western Front in 1918. Little would he know how much his poem would mean to so many. Every year on November 11, I honor my Grandfather who was a soldier in World War 1 by attending the service held at the National World War 1 Memorial in Kansas City.
The Somme: Heroism and horror in the First World War by 
