Book Details
Title: | The Sixth of June | ||||||||||
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Published: | 1955 | ||||||||||
Publisher: | Doubleday & Company, Inc. | ||||||||||
Tags: | Canadiana, fiction, Governor General's Literary Award, romance, war, World War II, film/TV adaptation | ||||||||||
Description: | Brad Parker, an American soldier, travels to England as part of the country's war effort. Despite being married, he falls deeply in love with an English woman. The woman, Valerie, is already engaged to an English soldier, John Wynter, who is heavily involved in the war effort but is away fighting in Italy. A romantic entanglement ensues which reaches a climax of all involved in Operation Overlord, better known as D-Day. The description of England during wartime and the battle scenes are rendered more authentic by the author's own personal experience as a soldier during World War II. [Suggest a different description.] |
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Comments: | The book won the Governor General's Literary Award in 1955. | ||||||||||
Downloads: | 1,043 | ||||||||||
Pages: | 311 ![]() |
Author Bio for Shapiro, Lionel
Lionel Shapiro (1908-1958) was a Canadian journalist and writer. Born in Montreal, Quebec, he attended McGill University. He became a journalist and worked for the Montreal Gazette. When World War II started he joined the army as a war correspondent. He participated in amphibious landings at Sicily, Salerno, and Juno Beach on the D-Day invasion. He wrote several novels mostly with war themes including "The Sixth of June" which won him the Governor General's Award for English-language fiction in 1955. (Macmillan Dictionary of Canadian Biography)
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