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    The Long Run
    The Long Run
    The Long Run
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    The Long Run

    By Joan Sullivan

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    On the morning of July 1, 1916, at Beaumont-Hamel, the men of the Royal Newfoundland Regiment climbed out of their trenches and advanced into no man’s land. Eric Mackenzie Robertson went over the top on that fateful day—and survived. Almost unbelievably, just four years later, Robertson would become the first born and bred Newfoundlander to compete in the Olympics. With her engaging journalistic style, Joan Sullivan—author of the award-winning In the Field—returns to tell the story of the Royal Newfoundland Regiment, a lost Olympiad, and one man’s extraordinary journey through the battlefield and into history.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBreakwater Books Ltd
    Release dateOct 30, 2015
    ISBN9781550816204
    The Long Run
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    Joan Sullivan

    Joan Sullivan is the editor of the Newfoundland Quarterly. As a freelance journalist, her interviews, reviews, and commentary have appeared in The Telegram, The Globe and Mail, and on CBC Radio. She is the award-winning author of In the Field and The Long Run and lives in St. John’s.

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