The Final Innings

The Final Innings

by Christopher Sandford
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date: 16/07/2019

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The declaration of war against Germany on 3 September 1939 brought an end to the second (and as yet, final) Golden Age of English cricket. Over 200 first-class English players signed up to fight in that first year; 52 never came back. In many ways, the summer of 1939 was the end of innocence. Using unpublished letters, diaries and memoirs, Christopher Sandford recreates that last summer, looking at men like George Macaulay, who took a wicket with his first ball in Test cricket but was struck down while serving with the RAF in 1940; Maurice Turnbull, the England all-rounder who fell during the Normandy landings; and Hedley Verity, who still holds cricketing records, but who died in the invasion of Sicily. Few English cricket teams began their first post-war season without holding memorial ceremonies for the men they had lost: The Final Innings pays homage not only to these men, but to the lost innocence, heroism and human endurance of the age.

ISBN:
9780750992763
9780750992763
Category:
Cricket
Format:
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date:
16-07-2019
Language:
English
Publisher:
The History Press
Christopher Sandford

Christopher Sandford is the author of 24 books, has been shortlisted for the Sports Book of the Year award in the cricket category, and has had his work developed into television series.

His books have been translated into 18 languages.

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