The Greater Game: Sporting Icons Who Fell in The Great War
| By: | Clive Harris; Julian Whippy |
| Publisher: | Casemate Publishers and Book Distributors, LLC |
| Print ISBN: | 9781844157624 |
| eText ISBN: | 9781783375950 |
| Edition: | 1 |
| Format: | Page Fidelity |
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This fascinating book examines the deadly impact of The Great War on a number of leading professional sportsmen of the age. Their untimely deaths pressed home how even the fittest and most gifted were vulnerable and their loss was felt by far more than their families and friends. Among those featured in this well illustrated book are: Donald Bell - the only professional football player to win the Victoria Cross: Anthony Wilder - the glamorous Wimbledon champion who fell in May 1915