Pearls before Poppies: The Story of the Red Cross Pearls by Rachel Trethewey

Pearls before Poppies: The Story of the Red Cross Pearls

Rachel Trethewey

256 pages first pub 2018 (editions)

nonfiction history informative inspiring slow-paced
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In February 1918, Lady Northcliffe, wife of the owner of The Daily Mail and The Times had the idea of raising funds for the Red Cross by asking women to give a pearl as a tribute to the dead and the wounded in the Great War. The plan was to create...

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