Blood-Stained Poppy, The: A critique of the politics of commemoration

by Kevin Rooney and James Heartfield

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For a century the war dead have been honoured with Red Poppies on Remembrance Day. The Poppy is part of a cult of death that celebrates the slaughter of the 'Great War' of 1914-18. The Poppy and the Remembrance Day ceremony turn grief to sanctify war. Here we expose the truth about the First World War, and about the century of militarism that followed. The war was not fought to make the world safe, but out of hatred and imperial greed. In the hundred years since the end of the First World War, Britain's military ventures have continued to wreak havoc across the world. The Poppy is a symbol of British militarism, not a badge of peace.
  • ISBN10 1789040779
  • ISBN13 9781789040777
  • Publish Date 25 October 2019
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country GB
  • Imprint John Hunt Publishing
  • Format Paperback
  • Pages 184
  • Language English