Cover image for Into the blizzard : walking the fields of the Newfoundland dead / Michael Winter.
TITLE:
Into the blizzard : walking the fields of the Newfoundland dead / Michael Winter.
By:
Winter, Michael, 1965-
Publication Date:
2014
Publication Information:
Toronto : Doubleday Canada,
Physical Description:
339 p. : ill., map.
Subject Term:
Somme, 1st Battle of the, France, 1916.

World War, 1914-1918 -- Regimental histories -- Canada.

Beaumont-Hamel, Battle of, 1916.

World War, 1914-1918 -- Newfoundland and Labrador.
Summary:
Award-winning novelist Michael Winter turns his hand to non-fiction in this gripping and uniquely personal book about the young men of the Royal Newfoundland Regiment who were all but annihilated 100 years ago, at the Battle of the Somme during the First World War - and the surprising political and social reverberations of that battle, which are still felt in Canada and in Europe today.
Language:
English
ISBN:
9780385677851
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