Wartime Wanderers: A Football Team at War

Purcell, Tim; Gething, Mike

ISBN 10: 1851589139 / ISBN 13: 9781851589135

Edité par Mainstream Publishing, 1996

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very nice copy.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Wartime Wanderers: A Football Team at War
• Éditeur: Mainstream Publishing
• Date de parution: 1996
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 1851589139
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9781851589135
• Reliure: Hardcover
• Édition: 1st Edition
• État de l'article: Near Fine
• État de la jaquette: Near Fine
• Catalogues du vendeur:
  • Second World War

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Synopsis

In front of a 45,000 strong crowd - Bolton Wanderers Captain, Harry Goslin, gives a rousing speech and leads the entire team off to sign up. It is the story of a team whose loyalty led them into world conflict, and whose spirit helped them to survive it.

Présentation de l'éditeur

The war against Germany is about to be declared. In front of a 23, 000-strong crowd at Burndon Park, Bolton Wanderers captain, Harry Goslin, gives a rousing speech before leading the entire team to the Terri-torial Army Drill Hall where they all sign up. For the next six years, as gunners in the 53rd Field Regiment of the Bolton Artillary, they face some of the heaviest fighting in the Second World War, in France, North Africa and Italy, and also establish themselves as a formidable Regimantal football team throughout the theatre of war. Of the full squad only one is killed in action--the remainder return home to their families and to their football careers. But this is much more than a war story. It is much more than a foot-ball story. It is the story of three individuals: ray Westwood, who is already a star; his inseperable team-mate Ernie Forest, whose ready wit carries him through in the face of adversity; and Nat Lofthouse, who is still only a schoolboy when war intervenes to link their dest-inies. this is the story of a team whose loyalty led them into a bloody world conflict, and whose indomitable spirit enabled them to survive it. Most of all it is the story of a football club whose very existence is an essential part of a town'a soul.