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Winter, Michael, 1965-
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Great Britain. Army. Royal Newfoundland Regiment.
Beaumont-Hamel, Battle of, Beaumont-Hamel, France, 1916.
Somme, 1st Battle of the, France, 1916.
World War, 1914-1918 -- Regimental histories -- Newfoundland and Labrador.
World War, 1914-1918 -- Newfoundland and Labrador.
World War, 1914-1918 -- Participation, Canadian.
World War, 1914-1918 -- Battlefields -- France.
World War, 1914-1918 -- Battlefields -- Western Front.
Beaumont-Hamel (France) -- Description and travel.
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Winter, Michael, 1965-
Great Britain. Army. Royal Newfoundland Regiment.
Beaumont-Hamel, Battle of, Beaumont-Hamel, France, 1916.
Somme, 1st Battle of the, France, 1916.
World War, 1914-1918 -- Regimental histories -- Newfoundland and Labrador.
World War, 1914-1918 -- Newfoundland and Labrador.
World War, 1914-1918 -- Participation, Canadian.
World War, 1914-1918 -- Battlefields -- France.
World War, 1914-1918 -- Battlefields -- Western Front.
Beaumont-Hamel (France) -- Description and travel.
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Into
the
blizzard
:
walking
the
fields
of the
Newfoundland
dead
/ Michael Winter.
by
Winter, Michael, 1965-
Doubleday Canada, a division of Random House Of Canada Limited, 2014.
Call #:
940.412718 W786i
Subjects
Great Britain. Army. Royal
Newfoundland
Regiment.
Beaumont-Hamel, Battle of, Beaumont-Hamel, France, 1916.
Somme, 1st Battle of the, France, 1916.
World War, 1914-1918 -- Regimental histories --
Newfoundland
and Labrador.
World War, 1914-1918 --
Newfoundland
and Labrador.
World War, 1914-1918 -- Participation, Canadian.
World War, 1914-1918 -- Battlefields -- France.
World War, 1914-1918 -- Battlefields -- Western Front.
Beaumont-Hamel (France) -- Description and travel.
ISBN:
9780385677851 (hc.)
Description:
339 pages : illustrations (some colour), colour map, portraits ; 22 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references.
Summary:
"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. A century later the author walks in the footsteps of the
dead
men to discover what remains of their passage across land and through memory. Part unconventional history, part memoir-travelogue, part philosophical inquiry, Michael Winter captures the extraordinary lives and landscapes, both in Europe and at home, scarred by a war that is just now disappearing from living memory. As he wanders from battlefield to barracks to hospital to hotel, and finally to a bereft stretch of land battered by a
blizzard
back home, Winter startles us with the unexpected encounters and juxtapositions that arise from the act of
walking
through the places where the soldiers once marched, the author armed with artifacts and knowledge those earlier souls could not have, yet undone by the reality of their bodily presence beneath the earth. This unusual and poignant book gives us a new way of looking at a powerful piece of history that continues to haunt our own lives. Michael Winter lives in Toronto and
Newfoundland
"--Provided by publisher.
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