The Final Over
The Cricketers of Summer 1914
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.
9780750959667
Book, Hardcover
The Final Over: The Cricketers of Summer 1914
- Author: Christopher Sandford
History Press, 2014
256
English
9.20 x 6.30 x 1.00 inches, 1.30 pounds
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