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Cargando... Final Wicket: Test and First Class Cricketers Killed in the Great Warpor Nigel McCrery
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While cricket remains a national game today, at the beginning of the Twentieth Century, it was THE national game. Cricketers were the sporting icons of their age, as footballers are today.When the call to arms was made in 1914 and the years of war that followed, it was answered in droves by young men including Test and First Class cricketers. The machine guns and gas of the Western Front and other theatres did not discriminate and many hundreds of these star performers perished alongside their lesser known comrades. The author has researched the lives and deaths of over 200 top class cricketers who made the ultimate sacrifice. He includes not just British players but those from the Empire. The enormity of the horror and wholesale loss of life during The Great War is well demonstrated by these moving biographies. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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Final Wicket by Nigel McCrery follows on from his previous books In To Touch and The Final Season: The Footballers Who Fought and Died in the Great War. Final Wicket as it suggests is a book of those cricketers, from test and first class levels, who were killed during the Great War.
This is an excellently researched book with some interesting portraits of the players as well as their records. This book certainly has been a labour of love and we the reader are the lucky recipients, as we get a book that is packed with information and a pleasure to read.
Just after his preface before McCrery gets in to the guts of the book, he opens with a cricketer who never played a first class game, but holds a record that has not been broken. A. E. J. Collins, while at school, broke a batting record of 628 not out and on the centenary of that particular knock, Tim Rice wrote an article that appeared in the Daily Telegraph.
One thing that did strike me reading this book was how many of the cricketers were commissioned officers whether in the British or Empire Armies. What did strike me was the number killed from the Oxford and Cambridge teams that would have been some of the country’s brightest men and the future of not just cricket but of Britain also. My own county (Lancashire) lost 5 men, but there is not a country team that is unaffected.
Final Wicket is one of the nicest and best commemorative books I have read that covers the Great War and cricket. This book is so well researched and well written the book is an absolute pleasure to read and I cannot recommend this book highly enough. (