Into the Blizzard
CBC Books | CBC | Posted: March 13, 2017 1:23 PM | Last Updated: April 20, 2017
Michael Winter
Michael Winter won First Prize in the CBC Short Story Competition in 2004, but not before having to cut "The Point David Made Earlier" in half on the day of the deadline when he realized he had misunderstood the word count. Winter's storytelling talents are on display again in Into the Blizzard, a memoir-travelogue about a trip he took to the World War One battlefields of Europe to retrace the footsteps of the dead soldiers who came from Newfoundland's small villages.
From the book
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.
From Into the Blizzard by Michael Winter ©2014. Published by Random House Canada.