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The Football Battalions The Elite Footballers Who Fought in the Great War | 6.1 MB
Title: The Football Battalions
Author: Christopher Evans
Category: Nonfiction, Sports, Football, Biography & Memoir, History
Language: English | 256 Pages | ISBN: 1399413511
Description:
'An extraordinary story' - David Williamson, Chief Political Commentator at the Daily Express
'Lovely book ... a lot of unknown stories in there' - Paul Hawksbee, talkSPORT
'Excellent... a compelling analysis, drawing on social, political and military history, eye-opening but enlivened throughout by his keen eye for the humorous and hypocritical' - When Saturday Comes
THE POIGNANT STORY OF HOW PROFESSIONAL FOOTBALLERS WENT TO WAR
1914.Britain is slowly becoming football-obsessed: players are becoming household names, attendance is increasing and George V attends the FA Cup Final in May. Then the war breaks out.
In this fascinating work, equal parts footballing and military history, Christopher Evans explores how, once the war began, footballers were put under immense pressure to sign up, resulting in the formation of Football Battalions in England and Scotland. He recounts...
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