Poppies Grow on Broken Ground

When Welsh soldiers left for war in August 1914, their families were promised they'd be home by Christmas. But the war raged for more than four years and over 40,000 soldiers never returned.

Everyone in Abercolwen, a coastal farming village in The Vale of Glamorgan, must endure the fear and uncertainty wrought by the savage war on the continent and must cope with the many ways it transforms their daily lives, tearing at the social fabric of their community.

In the wake of her father-in-law'...