The Guns of Normandy
1995 non-fiction book by George G. Blackburn
9780771015038 The Guns of Normandy: A Soldier's Eye View, France 1944 is a non-fiction book, written by Canadian writer George G. Blackburn, first published in October 1995 by McClelland & Stewart. In the book, the author renders a firsthand account of the Normandy invasion from within the Canadian Forces. The narrative account was called "gripping", given in "the most graphic and authentic detail".[1] The panel of judges who awarded the "Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction" called The Guns of Normandy "an outstanding example" of the genre.[2]
Awards and honours
The Guns of Normandy won the 1996 Ottawa Citizen "Book of the Year Award" and received shortlist honours for the '96 "Trillium Award". The book won Blackburn the 1996 "Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction" as well, giving him acclaim at the national level.[2]
See also
References
- ^ a b Goodreads, The Guns of Normandy, Book review, Retrieved 11/21/2012
- ^ a b Faculty of Arts, 1996, Edna Staebler Award, Wilfrid Laurier University, Past Winners, George G. Blackburn, Retrieved 11/21/2012
External links
- Wilfrid Laurier University, The Guns of Normandy, Excerpt, Retrieved 11/22/2012
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Winners of the Edna Staebler Award
- Susan Mayse, Ginger (1991)
- Marie Wadden, Nitassinan, (1992)
- Liza Potvin, White Lies (for my mother) and Elizabeth Hay, The Only Snow in Havana (1993)
- Linda Johns, Sharing a Robin's Life (1994)
- Denise Chong, The Concubine's Children (1995)
- George G. Blackburn, The Guns of Normandy (1996)
- Anne Mullens, Timely Death (1997)
- Charlotte Gray, Mrs. King (1998)
- Michael Poole, Romancing Mary Jane (1999)
- Wayson Choy, Paper Shadows (2000)
- Taras Grescoe, Sacré Blues (2001)
- Tom Allen, Rolling Home (2002)
- Alison Watt, The Last Island (2003)
- Andrea Curtis, Into the Blue (2004)
- Anne Coleman, I'll Tell You a Secret (2005)
- Francis Chalifour, After (2006)
- Linden MacIntyre, Causeway (2007)
- Bruce Serafin, Stardust (2008)
- Russell Wangersky, Burning Down the House (2009)
- John Leigh Walters, A Very Capable Life (2010)
- Helen Waldstein Wilkes, Letters from the Lost (2011)
- Joshua Knelman, Hot Art (2012)
- Carol Shaben, Into the Abyss (2013)
- Arno Kopecky, The Oil Man and the Sea: Navigating the Northern Gateway (2014)
- Lynn Thomson, Birding with Yeats (2015)
- Ann Walmsley, The Prison Book Club (2016)
- Sonja Larsen, Red Star Tattoo (2017)
- Pauline Dakin, Run, Hide, Repeat: A Memoir of a Fugitive Childhood (2018)
- Kate Harris, Lands of Lost Borders: Out of Bounds on the Silk Road (2019)
- Ann Hui, Chop Suey Nation (2020)
- Vicki Laveau-Harvie, The Erratics: A Memoir (2021)
- Jillian Horton, We Are All Perfectly Fine: A Memoir of Love, Medicine and Healing (2022)
- Hilary Peach, Thick Skin: Field Notes from a Sister in the Brotherhood (2023)
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