Bullets, Bombs & Birdies: Golf in the Time of War

by Don Concannon and Dale Concannon

Ever since the game began--possibly as far back as the 11th century--golf and war have been oddly connected. In 1457, for example, the King of Scotland banned "gowlf" because his subjects were spending more time on the local links than they were at archery practice--bows and arrows being the country's main weapons of defense at the time. In August 1940--hightailing it home after a raid on Aberdeen, Scotland--a German aircraft dropped a bomb over nearby...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1932202145
• ISBN13: 9781932202144
• Release Date: February 2004
• Publisher: Wiley
• Length: 142 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.8" x 8.9"

Customer Reviews

Insightful book

This book shows a side of golf that not many people have ever explored. The effect on golf during wartime was vast and this book has many photos' to prove it.