Flanders
The poppies may be growing in far-off Flanders fields, but it is not the flowers that this
book wants us to remember. Young Texan Travis Lee Stanhope has volunteered for
combat duty with the Brits in the spring of 1916. He qualifies as a sharpshooter and is
assigned to the trenches in Flanders. Poetry reading and reciting Travis has many lessons
to learn here in that “war to end all wars.” In Patricia Anthony's “Flanders,” the author is
quick to... God's Fires
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