" 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 ...
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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. The second journey is the author's, taken a century later as he 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 uniquely captures the extraordinary lives and landscapes, both in Europe and at home, scarred by a war that is just now disappearing from living memory. In subtle and surprising ways, he also tells the hidden story of the very act of remembering - of how the past bleeds into the present and the present corrals and shapes the past. 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 gently but persistently unsettles us - startling us with the unexpected encounters and juxtapositions that arise from his physical act of walking through the places where the soldiers once marched, this time armed with artifacts and knowledge those earlier souls could not have, yet undone by the reality of their bodily presence beneath the earth. In this unusual, poignant and beautiful book, Michael Winter gives us a new way of looking at a powerful piece of history that, he reminds us, continues to haunt our own lives.
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Add this copy of Into the Blizzard: Walking the Fields of the to cart. $6.90, very good condition, Sold by ThriftBooks-Dallas rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Dallas, TX, UNITED STATES, published 2014 by Doubleday Canada.
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Add this copy of Into the Blizzard: Walking the Fields of the to cart. $15.00, very good condition, Sold by G. J. Askins - Bookseller rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from New Lebanon, NY, UNITED STATES, published 2014 by Doubleday Canada.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. 6 x 8 1/2. 340 page hardcover-narrative of a journey to retrace the steps of the Newfoundland Regiment at the Battle at Beaumont-Hamel during the Battle of the Somme. Dust jacket is bright, complete and clean. Interior is unmarked, tight and clean.
Add this copy of Into the Blizzard: Walking the Fields of the to cart. $17.99, very good condition, Sold by Russell Books rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Victoria, BC, CANADA, published 2014 by Doubleday Canada.
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Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket. 0385677855. DJ and boards show very light shelf wear.; A bright, solid book, dustjacket in Mylar, unclipped.; 5.84 X 1.17 X 8.53 inches; 339 pages; Winter, a writer who was born and brought up in Newfoundland writes of his experiences while visiting the WWI battlefields where the soldiers of the Newfoundland Regiment fought and died in great numbers and the various European memorials to their service. He speaks of the feelings and memories they invoke in him. This is a very touching memorial.
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Very Good in Very Good, Not Price Clipped jacket. Book Complete number line from 1 to 10; some edge wear to boards and dust jacket including bump to lower right corner; otherwise a solid, clean copy with no marking or underlining; collectible condition.
Add this copy of Into the Blizzard: Walking the Fields of the to cart. $27.00, like new condition, Sold by Brian Bauld (B-Line Books) rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Amherst, NS, CANADA, published 2014 by Doubleday Canada.
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Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 0385677855. A Good Read ships from Toronto and Niagara Falls, NY-customers outside of North America please allow two to three weeks for delivery. Inscribed by author to previous owner on half-title page. Light rubbing to outer tips of d/j.; 5.84 X 1.17 X 8.53 inches; 352 pages; Signed by Author.
Add this copy of Into the Blizzard: Walking the Fields of the to cart. $36.35, good condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Newport Coast, CA, UNITED STATES, published 2014 by Doubleday Canada.
