ROSS, ALAN — Winter Sea : War, Journeys, Writers

London, Collins Harvill. 1997, First Edition. (ISBN: 1860464319) Hardcover. Book, "Part travel book, part memoir (and with a selection of his poems) a pilgrimage to places engraved in the twentieth century's history of conflict and upheaval and a meditation on how momentous events have affected individual lives.Alan Ross visits the North Sea and the Baltic cities of Tallin, Hamburg, Oslo and Bergen . in now confident prosperous towns he finds traces of a darker, more turbulent age, a past continuing in both memory and imagination to shape the present. Dust jacket painting " Harbour and Moon"by Paul Nash. As New/As New.