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Hardcover The Final Innings: The Cricketers of Summer 1939 Book

ISBN: 0750988134

ISBN13: 9780750988131

The Final Innings: The Cricketers of Summer 1939

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The declaration of war on 3 September 1939 brought to an end a golden age of British cricket, the likes of which has never been repeated. At least 216 of 283 registered British first-class players joined up before the end of the year; fifty-two lost their lives. Here cricket stands as both a statistical and very human representation of the price paid in British blood as a whole. Final Innings will follow characters of unmatched modesty, charm and...

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