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The Final Over - The Cricketers of Summer 1914 (Hardcover)
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The Final Over - The Cricketers of Summer 1914 (Hardcover)
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Shortlisted for the 2015 Cricket Society and MCC Book of the Year
Award. Shortlisted for the Cross British Sports Book of the Year
2015 (Cricket category). 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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