The final over : the cricketers of summer 1914
Sandford, Christopher, 1956-2014
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August 1914 brought an end to the 'Golden Age' of English cricket. At least 210 professional cricketers (out of a total of 278 registered) signed up to fight, of whom 34 were killed. Cricket stands as both a statistical, and very human, representation of the price paid in British blood as a whole. The sun-baked atmosphere of English society's last carefree weeks is graced by some of the Corinthian greats of their day, like Lord Lionel Tennyson and the polymath C.B. Fry, brought alive through the words of their own letters and diaries both on the sports fields of England and in the bloody trenches of Frances.
Main title:
The final over : the cricketers of summer 1914 / Christopher Sandford.
Author:
Sandford, Christopher, 1956-, author
Imprint:
Stroud, Gloucestershire : Spellmount, 2014.
Collation:
255 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9780750959667 (hbk)9780750961981 (ePub ebook)
Dewey class:
796.3'58'0922'42
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
185581
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