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Michael Winter

Into the Blizzard

Walking the Fields of the Newfoundland Dead

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In June a few years ago I set out to visit some of the World War One battlefields of Europe - the slope and valley and river and plain that the Newfoundland Regiment trained on, and fought over and through and under. So begins Michael Winter's extraordinary narrative that follows two parallel journeys, one laid on top of the other like a sketch on opaque paper over the lines of an old map. The first journey is that of the young men who came from Newfoundland's outports, fields, villages and narrow city streets to join the storied regiment that led many of them to their deaths at Beaumont-Hamel during the Battle of the Somme on July 1, 1916… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-0-385-67785-1
  • EAN: 9780385677851
  • Produktnummer: 20292934
  • Verlag: Random House N.Y.
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
  • Seitenangabe: 352 S.

Über den Autor


MICHAEL WINTER is the author of a number of novels, including The Architects Are Here, which was longlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize, and The Big Why, which was longlisted for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. The Death of Donna Whalen, was nominated for the Writers' Trust Fiction Prize and the Commonwealth Writers' Prize. He is also the recipient of the Writers' Trust Notable Author Award.

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