Sentence examples for fields of Flanders from inspiring English sources

Then it's on across the flat fields of Flanders.

From the plains of Troy to the fields of Flanders, war is the theme of this year's Edinburgh international festival.

Ten years after the premiere, they did indeed start dying like English gentlemen on the fields of Flanders.

Once you start to notice it, the fields of Flanders and Gallipoli begin to pervade the story.

I kept thinking, 'What would Alan do?'" First staged in 1968, Close the Coalhouse Door did for the coalfields what Oh! What a Lovely War did for the fields of Flanders.

Statesmen themselves had little patience for such castles in the sky — until the 19th-century tangle of treaty obligations was buried, along with the youth of Europe, beneath the fields of Flanders.

The study area consists of Flanders, which is the northern, Dutch-speaking regiof of Belgium.

And before that, when the first world war made caustic maps of Flanders fields and woods, built no-man's land and fields of mines, of wire, of engraved trenches of men and water, of how when, after it was over, a man called Eliot Howard decided that birds held territories, too.

And it was something similar that happened on the fields of Norway and of Flanders.

Endless battlefield images – young volunteers to the Basij militia charging across minefields, soldiers praying in muddy dugouts in an eastern version of Flanders fields – are shown on state TV.

"These writers, firefighting, ambulance-driving, patrolling the streets, were the successors of the soldier poets of the first world war," the author argues in her introduction.Bomb-hit London was surely of a different order to the peerless carnage of Flanders fields, but the literary impact of the war, she convincingly shows, is comparable.