BEST REFERENCE 2014

摘要

While serving as a brigade surgeon in the Canadian field artillery, John McCrae treated those wounded during the Second Battle of Ypres in spring 1915. After 17 days, and following the funeral of a close friend, he penned his famous poem In Flanders Fields, which was published December 8,1915, in Punch. Two years later he succumbed to pneumonia while still serving. A reading of his work was just one of the many tributes offered to commemorate the 2014 centennial of World War I. Perhaps most dramatic was the installation in the moat at the Tower of London of "Blood Swept Landscape and Seas of Red," consisting of 888,246 ceramic poppies-one for each British military fatality from the conflict. To help us understand the impact of the "Great War," ABC-CLIO's World War I: The Definitive Encyclopedia and Document Collection describes in abundant detail the causes, course, and effects of the war, complete with a glossary, chronology, and selective bibliography. Many previously untold stories are now available through letters, diaries, and even photographs posted at Europeana 1914-1918, one of this year's best websites.