A native of Kent, England, Dianne Graves studied languages before embarking on a public relations career in the fields of international education and travel. She began writing some sixteen years ago and is also the author of In the Midst of Alarms: The Untold Story of Women and the War of 1812and Red-coats and River Pirates: Sam and Ellens Adventure at the Windmill, an historical novel for young readers set on the St. Lawrence River in the 1830s. Dianne Graves has acted as a consultant on a number of projects, including the CBC documentary series A Peoples History of Canada,and has appeared in several documentary films, notably John McCraes War. She continues to research and write and lives in a 19th-century farmhouse in the scenic Mississippi River Valley of eastern Ontario with her husband, Canadian military historian Donald E. Graves.
Having visited the battlefields and cemeteries of Flanders on over forty occasions I cannot think of one when John McCraes words have not come to mind now thanks to the devotion and exhaustive research of Dianne Graves we have a splendid concise authoritative volume, giving a valuable insight into the man responsible for them, which I can highly recommend to anyone with an interest in any one of the many facets of the subject. David Harvey, military author/U.K. & U.S. research specialist This definitive work, well researched and beautifully written is ... an account of one of the Great Wars soldier-poets, based on unpublished correspondence and diaries, photographs and sketches. Legion Magazine A well researched book, written from a wide range of McCraes personal papers held in public and private collections. Graves obviously has deep regard for her subject and has done a wonderful job of recreating the milieu in which he moved. Canadian Military History The life and times of this soldier-doctor-poet are documented in this extensively researched work an essential addition to the bookshelves of readers with a particular interest in the war poets. This England magazine
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