Set in France during World War l, No Man's Land pulls us into the lives of the young men of the Newfoundland Regiment as they prepare to set out for the trenches and what will come to be known as the Battle of the Somme. A classic war novel, the book is equally effective in its portrayal of the camaraderie and unnatural quiet before the storm, as in its graphic acccount of the fight to make it through the barbed wire and sweep of machine-gun bullets. 
Two hundred and seventy-two Newfoundlanders who went over the top on July 1, 1916 were killed. No regiment suffered more casualties. It was the single greatest disaster in the island's history.

NO MAN'S LAND

Literature & Fiction

Kevin Major

Contemporary

Bantam Books of Canada Ltd

No Man's Land: A Novel

Doubleday, Canada

Gaffer, A Novel of Newfoundland

Doubleday Canada, Limited

Far from Shore

Children's Books

Demco Media

Faced with instability on many sides, and living in an outport community in Newfoundland, fifteen-year-old Chris gropes for direction in a family broken apart by unemployment. Even his easy-going, humorous attitude fails to steady him as he stumbles through the summer after grade ten. He’s failed his year, he can’t find a summer job, and he’s incredibly bored. So the first thing he heads for is trouble -- trouble that ends in a confrontation with the law. Work as a counselor at a summer camp offers the challenge of a fresh start, but it is here, amid new responsibilities, that he encounters his toughest test as a young man. Winner of the first Canadian Young Adult Book Award and named a Best Book of the Year by School Library Journal, Far from Shore was hailed as a unique and innovative novel when it was first published in 1980. As he has done throughout his career, Kevin Major broke new ground by tackling a multinarrative structure in a young adult novel -- an approach much imitated since but never more convincingly.

Bt Bound

First printing in trade paperback. From the library of Peter Priess, former manager of the Manitoba Archaeology Society with his signature on the title page. 111 pp. Illustrations, notes, references. Minor shelfwear to the covers. Very Good.

Terra Nova National Park: Human history study (Studies in archaeology, architecture, and history)

Politics & Social Sciences

Archaeology

National Historic Parks and Sites Branch, Parks Canada, Environment Canada

Dear Bruce Springsteen

VIKING CHILDREN\\\\\'S BOOKS

On July 1, 1916, the best and the brightest of a generation of Newfoundland men were virtually wiped out. From every bay and cove and town, from fishing stage to merchant's home, they marched off to the Great War, proud members of their very own Newfoundland Regiment, never suspecting what one terrible morning of treachery would bring. The Battle of Beaumont Hamel is considered the greatest tragedy in Newfoundland and Labrador’s history. 
Beyond the trenches were lovers and mothers and others who held them dear. The soldiers were part of the immeasurable turmoil of war, yet as they travelled to dangerous and distant lands they were never without the spirit and humour they brought from their homeland. 
Adapted for stage from the novel of the same name.

No Man's Land

Flanker Press

Cher Bruce Springsteen

Pierre Tisseyre

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