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The Final Innings - The Cricketers of Summer 1939 (Hardcover)
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The declaration of war against Germany on 3 September 1939 brought
an end to the second (and as yet, final) Golden Age of English
cricket. Over 200 first-class English players signed up to fight in
that first year; 52 never came back. In many ways, the summer of
1939 was the end of innocence. Using unpublished letters, diaries
and memoirs, Christopher Sandford recreates that last summer,
looking at men like George Macaulay, who took a wicket with his
first ball in Test cricket but was struck down while serving with
the RAF in 1940; Maurice Turnbull, the England all-rounder who fell
during the Normandy landings; and Hedley Verity, who still holds
cricketing records, but who died in the invasion of Sicily. Few
English cricket teams began their first post-war season without
holding memorial ceremonies for the men they had lost: The Final
Innings pays homage not only to these men, but to the lost
innocence, heroism and human endurance of the age.
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