War Games: Rugby Union during the Second World War - Softcover

Evans, Howard; Atkinson, Phil

 
9781902719672: War Games: Rugby Union during the Second World War
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1902719670 ISBN 13: 9781902719672
Verlag: St David's Press, 2020

Inhaltsangabe

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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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Howard Evans is a respected Cardiff-based rugby writer who was, for many years, a rugby correspondent for the South Wales Echo and Western Mail.

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Verlag
St David's Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2020
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1902719670
ISBN 13 
9781902719672
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
306
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