Imprint:
Stroud, Gloucestershire : Spellmount, 2015.
Collation:
255 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm
Notes:
Originally published: 2014.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:
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.
ISBN:
9780750962988 (pbk)
Dewey Class:
796.3'58'0922'42
796.358092242
796.3'58'092242
Bookmark Link:
https://hampshire.spydus.co.uk/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/KIDS/BIBENQ?BRN=2135240
