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  • SEASON IN HELL
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    SEASON IN HELL
    NIGEL MCCRERY
    Professional football was officially suspended at the outbreak of the Second World War in September 1939. With their contracts terminated, players were free to join the Armed Forces and, by April 1940, 514 were enlisted in the Army, 84 in the RAF and 31 in the Royal Navy. Many others were involved in war work; one factory in Oldbury boasted 18 West Bromwich Albion players. Of t...

    $382.00

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  • THE FALLEN FEW OF THE BATTLE OF BRITAIN
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    THE FALLEN FEW OF THE BATTLE OF BRITAIN
    NORMAN FRANKS / NIGEL MCCRERY / EDWARD MCMANUS
    'Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few' Seventy-five years on the unforgettable words of Winston Churchill ring as powerfully as they did in August 1940 when the young men of the RAF stood as the last line of defence against Hitler's far more powerful Luftwaffe.This emotional yet factual book describes the three and a half months (10 July 31...

    $279.00

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  • FINAL WICKET
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    FINAL WICKET
    NIGEL MCCRERY
    While cricket remains a national game today, at the beginning of the Twentieth Century, it was THE national game. Cricketers were the sporting icons of their age, as footballers are today.When the call to arms was made in 1914 and the years of war that followed, it was answered in droves by young men including Test and First Class cricketers. The machine guns and gas of the Wes...

    $329.00

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  • THE EXTINGUISHED FLAME
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    THE EXTINGUISHED FLAME
    NIGEL MCCRERY
    In August 2016 the world will be spellbound by the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro as 10,500 athletes from 206 countries compete in 306 events. Tracing their origins back to the Greeks in 776 BC, the history of the Olympics is a glorious one but it has had its darker moments.During the First World War no fewer than 135 Olympians perished. Many had won Gold, Silver and Bronze me...

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  • THE COMING STORM
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    THE COMING STORM
    NIGEL MCCRERY
    The outbreak of the Second World War came towards the closing stages of the 1939 cricket season. Hitler permitted us almost to complete an exceptionally interesting season, Sir Home Gordon, wrote in the Cricketer magazine, When shall we see the stumps pitched again?As the West Indies touring team canceled their last five matches and sailed home before the U-boat threat develope...

    $329.00

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  • FINAL SCRUM
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    FINAL SCRUM
    NIGEL MCCRERY / MICHAEL ROWE
    After the terrible losses of The Great War, twenty years later the Second World War resulted in the death of some of the finest sporting icons. This book honors the ninety International Rugby players who lost their lives. Fifteen were Scottish, fourteen English, eleven Welsh and eight Irish. Australia and New Zealand suffered with ten and two Internationals killed respectively ...

    $119.00

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  • FINAL SCRUM
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    FINAL SCRUM
    NIGEL MCCRERY / MICHAEL ROWE
    After the terrible losses of The Great War, twenty years later the Second World War resulted in the death of some of the finest sporting icons. This book honors the ninety International Rugby players who lost their lives. Fifteen were Scottish, fourteen English, eleven Welsh and eight Irish. Australia and New Zealand suffered with ten and two Internationals killed respectively ...

    $119.00

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  • THE COMING STORM
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    THE COMING STORM
    NIGEL MCCRERY
    The outbreak of the Second World War came towards the closing stages of the 1939 cricket season. Hitler permitted us almost to complete an exceptionally interesting season, Sir Home Gordon, wrote in the Cricketer magazine, When shall we see the stumps pitched again?As the West Indies touring team canceled their last five matches and sailed home before the U-boat threat develope...

    $329.00

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  • SEASON IN HELL
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    SEASON IN HELL
    NIGEL MCCRERY
    Professional football was officially suspended at the outbreak of the Second World War in September 1939. With their contracts terminated, players were free to join the Armed Forces and, by April 1940, 514 were enlisted in the Army, 84 in the RAF and 31 in the Royal Navy. Many others were involved in war work; one factory in Oldbury boasted 18 West Bromwich Albion players. Of t...

    $383.99

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  • INTO TOUCH
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    INTO TOUCH
    NIGEL MCCRERY
    Many thousands of men died during the Great War. They came from every place and class. The very cream of the Nation joined up thinking it a great adventure but, all too often, never returned. This book is dedicated to the memory of an elite few of such men the Rugby Internationals who fell in The Great War. Among the hundreds of thousands who served and died for their country w...

    $229.00

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