Final Wicket: Test & First-Class Cricketers Killed in the Great War Tolkien James Montgomery Flagg

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Final Wicket: Test & First-Class Cricketers Killed in the Great War Tolkien James Montgomery FlaggDescription By Nigel McCrery Paperback While cricket remains popular today, at the beginning of the 20th 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 Western Front and other theatres did not