Nicholas J. Saunders

About The Author

Nicholas J. Saunders is the world's leading authority on the anthropology and archaeology of the First World War. His exhibition of trench art was for five years a centrepiece of the 'In Flanders Fields Museum'

Books by Nicholas J. Saunders

The Poppy

A Cultural History from Ancient Egypt to Flanders Fields to Afghanistan

By Nicholas J. Saunders
In the aftermath of the horrific trench warfare of the First World War, the poppy – sprouting across the killing fields of France and Belgium, then immortalised in John McCrae’s moving poem – became a worldwide icon. Yet the poppy has a longer history, as the tell-tale sign of human cultivation o...
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