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Hearts at War 1914-1919 (Paperback)
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Hearts at War 1914-1919 (Paperback)
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List price R489
Loot Price R399
Discovery Miles 3 990
You Save R90 (18%)
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In November 1914, Hearts led the Scottish First Division. In the
middle of a debate about the morality of continuing professional
football during the First World War and a campaign to shame
footballers into joining up, eleven Hearts players enlisted in Sir
George McCrae's battalion on 25 November. Hearts supporters and
players and supporters from myriad other clubs flocked to join as
well. Officially known as 16th Royal Scots, this unit was the first
to be described as a footballers' battalion. On 1 July 1916, 15th
and 16th Royal Scots attacked near the village of Contalmaison in
the Somme Valley. Three Hearts players would die that day; seven
would be killed in total during the war, and many more would be
wounded. In this book, Tom Purdie tells the story of the Hearts
players and supporters who served their country during the Great
War and those who were left behind in Edinburgh who, with
unstinting effort and sacrifice, helped to bring the club through
that extremely trying time in its proud history.
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