While cricket remains a national game today, at the beginning of the
Twentieth Century, it was THE national game. Cricketers were the
sporting icons of their age, as footballers are today.When the call to
arms was made in 1914 and the years of war that followed, it was
answered in droves by young men including Test and First Class
cricketers. The machine guns and gas of the Western Front and other
theatres did not discriminate and many hundreds of these star
performers perished alongside their lesser known comrades. The author
has researched the lives and deaths of over 200 top class cricketers
who made the ultimate sacrifice. He includes not just British players
but those from the Empire. The enormity of the horror and wholesale
loss of life during The Great War is well demonstrated by these moving
biographies.
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ISBN
9781473864184
Publisert
2015
Utgiver
Vendor
Pen & Sword Military (ORIM)
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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