The Given Day: A Novel Retired Poppies Ivor Gurney (1890-1937) was a

Ivor Gurney (1890-1937) was a classical music composer and poet who published two volumes of poems

No other sporting contest so closely reflects the American psyche and culture

During the bloodiest days of World War I

and his critique of the warlords of both the Entente and the Central Powers – of Ludendorff and Churchill

November 1918

The Given Day: A Novel Retired Poppies Ivor Gurney (1890-1937) was aDescription By Dennis Lehane Paperback "Gut wrenching. . . . A majestic, fiery epic. The Given Dayis a huge, impassioned, intensively researched book that brings history alive."New York Times Now available with a contemporary look, a beautifully written novel of American history, set at the end of the Great War; an unflinching, utterly spectacular family epic that captures the political unrest of a nation dangling between a well patterned past and an