[Online library] The Final Over: The Cricketers of Summer 1914
·•●- Christopher Sandford ·•●-
| #10462806 in Books | 2015-09-01 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.00 x.90 x6.00l,1.02 | File Name: 0750962984 | 256 pages
||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| Cricket's Golden Age Destroyed|By David Bennett|"The Final Over" is a sad but fascinating book. It focuses on the last season of English cricket before the First World War and how the cricketers of that season fared in that war. Many, of course, died. Others were seriously injured. Others were mentally scared. Many repeated the courage they had displayed on the cricket field o|About the Author|
Christopher Sandford has written 20 books, including four cricket titles. His 2009 biography of Imran Khan was short-listed for the Sports Book of the Year award, and was runner-up in the MCC Cricket Book of the Year award. His biog
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 34 were killed. Cricket stands as both a statistical, and very human, representation of the price paid in British blood as a whole. The sun-baked atmosphere of English society’s last carefree weeks is graced by some of the Corinthian greats of their day, like Lord Lionel Tennyson and the polyma... [PDF.zj85] The Final Over: The Cricketers of Summer 1914 Rating: 3.72 (729 Votes)
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