The Final Over: The Cricketers of Summer 1914

by Christopher Sandford

August, 1914 brought an end to the "Golden Age" of English cricket. At least 210 professional cricketers (out of a total of 278 registered) signed up to fight, of whom 34 were killed. Cricket stands as both a statistical, and very human, representation of the price paid in British blood as a whole. The sun-baked atmosphere of English society's last carefree weeks is graced by some of the Corinthian greats of their day, like Lord Lionel Tennyson and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0750962984
• ISBN13: 9780750962988
• Release Date: September 2015
• Publisher: Spellmount Publishers
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.1"