Exhausted and despairing of the endless carnage being brought into his makeshift operating room, then Major John McCrae of the Canadian Army Medical Corps was doing his best to keep the wounded alive during the fierce fighting of the Second Battle of Ypres. McCrae was no stranger to war.
Les explosions causées par l’artillerie et les mines pendant la Première Guerre mondiale ont tellement retourné la terre que le mélange de cultures et de végétation n’arrivaient à croitre.