During the six years of a brutal global war - from the battlefields
of Europe, to the deserts of North Africa, the jungles of the Asia
and even in Prisoner of War camps - rugby union continued to be
played wherever and whenever possible by the servicemen of Britain
and her Allies from New Zealand, Australia and South Africa,
Dedicated to 'all those in rugby who did - and who didn't - make it
through those troubled times', War Games is a comprehensive and
highly illustrated commemoration, packed with stories and
statistics that for the first time chronicles the history of rugby
- the men and the matches, from `scratch' to international - during
the Second World War. Starting with the short-lived 'infant' season
of 1939-40 and ending with the `Victory' series of internationals
in 1945-6, and including the hugely successful New Zealand
Expeditionary Force (NZEF) 'Kiwi' tour of 1946, War Games details
all the major rugby contests and the hundreds of players including:
Bleddyn Williams, Prince Alex Obolensky, Bill McLaren, Wilf
Wooller, Blair Mayne, Sir Tasker Watkins, Ralph Sampson, Gus
Risman, Willie Davies, Les Manfield, Charlie Saxton, Fred Allen and
Jim Sherratt. Essential and entertaining reading for followers of
rugby and military historians alike, respected rugby authors Howard
Evans and Phil Atkinson tell the tale - meticulously and with great
affection for the game they love - of those men who played for fun
but who, on too many occasions, lost more than a rugby game.
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