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The Final Over - The Cricketers of Summer 1914 (Paperback)
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The Final Over - The Cricketers of Summer 1914 (Paperback)
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List price R413
Loot Price R389
Discovery Miles 3 890
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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 thirty-four were killed.
However, that period and those men were far more than merely
statistics: here we follow in intimate detail not only the
cricketers of that fateful last summer before the war, but also the
simple pleasures and daily struggles of their family lives and the
whole fabric of English social life as it existed on the eve of
that cataclysm: the First World War. With unprecedented access to
personal and war diaries, and other papers, Sandford expertly
recounts the stories of such greats as Hon. Lionel Tennyson, as he
moves virtually overnight from the round of Chelsea and Mayfair
parties into the front line at the Marne; the violin-playing bowler
Colin Blythe, who asked to be moved up to a front-line unit at
Passchendaele, following the death in action of his brother, with
tragic consequences; and the widely popular Hampshire amateur
player Robert Jesson, whose sometimes comic, frequently horrific
and always enthralling experiences of the ill-fated Gallipoli
campaign are vividly brought to life. The Final Over is undoubtedly
a gripping, moving and fully human account of this most poignant
summer of the twentieth century, both on and off the field of play.
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