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Salford Red Devils are one of Rugby League's most celebrated clubs, claiming a history going back to 1873. During the 150 years since, it has claimed numerous honours including six championship successes and eight Challenge Cup final appearances, four of them at Wembley. In 1934, the team achieved legendary status when touring France, their adventurous attacking play earning the accolade Les Diables Rouges – the Red Devils, a sobriquet officially appended in 2014. Some of rugby's most most revered names have worn the famed red jersey including Harry Eagles, who played in every match of the inaugural British rugby tour to Australasia in 1888; Welsh greats Gus Risman and David Watkins, both of whom are included in Rugby League's Hall of Fame; and Jimmy Lomas and Chris Hesketh who – along with Risman – share the honour of captaining a Great Britain touring side. The club continues to produce exciting, entertaining rugby, evidenced by recent prestigious Man of Steel awards to half-backs Jackson Hastings and Brodie Croft. Rugby League historian Graham Morris pays due homage to all of Salford's heroes, past and present, via a comprehensive and wide-reaching set of facts and figures covering every match and every player known to have represented the club since its formation. Backed by over 80 superb photographs and images, several in colour, this is the perfect reference book for Salford Red Devils supporters and Rugby League fans in general.
Has any county cricket club come close to the success of Warwickshire in the summer of 1994? Boosted by the late signing of Brian Lara, inspired by the maverick captain Dermot Reeve, fine-tuned by the ground-breaking coach Bob Woolmer, the little-fancied Bears won three trophies and were runners-up in the fourth. Patrick Murphy, working for the BBC in the Midlands, saw much of the action that summer, and in 'The Greatest Season' he tells the extraordinary story, drawing on the testimony not only of the team and the backroom staff but of many of their outwitted opponents. Though the tale has its moments of conflict and sadness, 'The Greatest Season' is above all a celebratory book, enhanced by previously unseen images from photographer Graham Morris.
The Battle of Koniggratz, also known as the Battle of Sadowa, or Hradec Kralove, was the decisive battle of the Austro-Prussian War, in which the Kingdom of Prussia defeated the Austrian Empire. Taking place near Koniggratz (Hradec Kralove) and Sadowa (Sadova) in Bohemia on 3 July 1866, it was an example of battlefield concentration, a convergence of multiple units at the same location to trap and/or destroy an enemy force between them. There were more troops on the field of Koniggratz than any other battle, prior to, or after it until the battle of Mukden (20th February-10th March 1905). Even the greatest battle of the century thus far, Leipzig in 1813, also known as the Battle of Nations, in which, on the final day of the battle the troops on both sides numbered, after losses sustained during the previous days fighting, some 420,000 men engaged, still fell short of the 430,000 plus who stood on the field of Koniggratz. Including 55 figures and detailed maps.
A compilation of one hundred of Wigan Rugby League Club's greatest players is comparable to a who's who of the most famous names ever seen in the 13-a-side code. There are few clubs that boast a history awash with such a glittering array of stars as the Cherry and Whites of Wigan. Names like Eric Ashton, Dean Bell, Billy Boston, Shaun Edwards, Joe Egan, Andy Farrell, Ken Gee, Ellery Hanley, Jimmy Leytham and, of course, the great Jim Sullivan, is just the tip of a very large iceberg. For over a century, the men from Central Park and, more latterly, the JJB Stadium, have dominated events in British Rugby League, providing the country with more Test players and tourists than any other club. But it is not just home-grown talent that features in Wigan's great sides. Over the years, club officials have spread the net far and wide in search of the best there is. New Zealanders such as the great Cec Mountford, the first overseas player to win the coveted Lance Todd Trophy, Australians like magical Queensland scrum-half Hector Gee, South Africans of the calibre of flying winger Attie van Heerden, who ran behind a police horse in scoring a try during the 1924 Challenge Cup final, and Scottish stalwarts like the talented George Fairbairn, and, of course, the many men from the valleys of South Wales; Boston, Sullivan, Johnny Ring, Johnny Thomas - the list is endless. All these great players, and many more, are featured within these pages. Illustrated throughout with over 120 photographs, each player receives a full profile, complete with biography and statistics. Compiled by Rugby League historian Graham Morris, and with a foreword by Eric Ashton MBE, a former, player, captain and coach of the club, this volume provides an excellent addition to the collection of any Wigan supporter.
This book is part of the 100 Greats series, which collects short biographies and statistics of the 100 greatest players on various sporting teams or clubs throughout their histories.
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