From Darkness into Light
The War Heroes Who Helped Save Cricket from Oblivion
$55.38
- Hardcover
352 pages
- Release Date
21 May 2023
Summary
From Darkness into Light tells the fascinating story of how a handful of intrepid cricketing soldiers helped save the game from oblivion. English cricket emerged from the Great War in a bruised and battered state. A four-year hiatus in the first-class game had left administrators, players and aficionados anxious about whether life on the field could ever be the same again. The state of Test cricket was even worse after the disastrous experiment of the Triangular Series of 1912. Into this mael…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781801504423 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1801504423 |
| Author: | John Broom, Anthony Condon |
| Publisher: | Pitch Publishing Ltd |
| Imprint: | Pitch Publishing Ltd |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 352 |
| Release Date: | 21 May 2023 |
| Weight: | 602g |
| Dimensions: | 240mm x 160mm |
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Critics Review
“More than the interesting glance down a back alley of cricket’s past that I expected it to be. In fact it is a look at an important episode from the game’s history without which it is just possible that the red ball game we all value so highly might have disappeared a century ago. The book is highly recommended.” – Martin Chandler * CricketWeb.net *
“It includes a thorough investigation into the somewhat obscure background to the tour, which at one stage was intended to be a full Australian cricket tour, complete with Test matches. The process by which it became a private tour under military auspices makes fascinating reading, all the more so as this is not a well known period of cricket history.”
– Richard Lawrence * The Association of Cricket Statisticians Journal *About The Author
John Broom
Dr John Broom has written books about many aspects of 20th-century warfare and culture, including Cricket in the First and Second World Wars.
Dr Anthony Condon is an Australian historian. He is interested in how culture and society perform to create identities. He has published scholarly work on cricket in the mid-19th century and commentates on cricket for White Line Wireless and Guerrilla Cricket.
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