From Darkness into Light tells the fascinating story of how a handful of intrepid cricketing soldiers helped save the game from oblivion. The Australian Imperial Forces cricket tour of 1919 helped to resurrect not only the English domestic game but Test cricket itself. The book fills an important gap in cricketing historiography.
With plentiful illustrations and suggestions for visits to hundreds of places of historical interest, this book makes an ideal companion for a journey into Britain's industrial past.
How English cricket coped with the cessation of first-class cricket for four summers and the worldwide game responded to a European conflict that became a world war.
This book traces the history of the searching services that were established to assist families in eliciting definitive news of their missing loved ones.
Using much previously unpublished material from public and private family archives, this book charts the story of those who remained true to the motto of the RAMC: Faithful in Adversity.