Farmer Emilio is forced to work for his cousin gathering the poppy crop while his nine-year-old son Simon befriends a girl of his age. She is obsessed with playing with a puppy dog she can't afford.

Visit the field of scarlet poppies and memorials which will blanket the Abbey’s grounds this November to remember loved ones lost serving in the Armed Forces. Now in its 96th year, the Field of ...

Poppies bring a delightful, delicate look to any garden with their tissue-like petals in spring. You'll be shocked to learn ...

Gen. Aqa Noor Kintuz was hired as provincial chief of police in the northeastern Afghan province of Badakhshan and charged with destroying its plentiful poppy fields. "After I finished one of the ...

The destruction brought by the Napoleonic wars of the early 19th Century transformed bare land into fields of blood red poppies, growing around the bodies of the fallen soldiers. In late 1914 ...

Red silk poppies were first sold by the Royal British Legion in 1921, with the funds raised used to help veterans with employment and housing. That year, Field Marshal Douglas Haig set up the Haig ...

Visit the field of scarlet poppies and memorials which will blanket the Abbey’s grounds this November to remember loved ones lost serving in the Armed Forces. Now in its 95th year, the Field of ...