Ebook: Wisden on the Great War: the lives of cricket's fallen, 1914-1918
Author: Renshaw Andrew
- Tags: BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Sports, Cricket, Cricket--Great Britain--History, Cricket players, Cricket players--Great Britain, GAMES / Gambling / Sports, Military participation--British, Obituaries, Obituaries--Great Britain, Soldiers, Soldiers--Great Britain, SPORTS & RECREATION / Business Aspects, SPORTS & RECREATION / Essays, SPORTS & RECREATION / History, SPORTS & RECREATION / Reference, TRAVEL / Special Interest / Sports, World War 1914-1918--Great Britain, World War 1914-1918--Participation British, Hist
- Year: 2014
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
- City: Great Britain
- Language: English
- epub
"Readers of the 1917 Wisden Cricketers' Almanack were advised by the editor, Sydney Pardon: 'Its chief feature is a record of the cricketers who have fallen in the War--the Roll of Honour, so far as the national game is concerned.' By the time the conflict was over, Wisden had carried almost 1,800 obituaries ... In Wisden on the Great War all the obituaries have been updated with new information about the subjects' lives and deaths, their families and memorials, and ordered by the year of death. There is a listing of the 289 men who had played first-class cricket, while the 89 who did not get an obituary in Wisden are now recognised. The book also lists for the first time the 407 first-class cricketers who were decorated for gallantry, of whom 381 survived." -- Jacket flap.
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