A Corner of a Foreign Field seamlessly interweaves biography with history, the lives of famous or forgotten cricketers with wider processes of social change. C. K. Nayudu and Sachin Tendulkar...
100th Anniversary WWI; 190 rare photos illustrate 97 classic poems of the Great War. The harrowing words and poignant images make a unique combination in this suberbly chosen anthology of poems and pictures from WWI
"Poetry war; first world war; daily mail photography."--Provided by publisher.
"Represented here are poems dashed off in the full awfulness of the battlefield, as well as those honed with the terrible benefit of hindsight.
An important, pioneering work, this is also a beautifully-written meditation on the ramifications of sport in society at large, and on how sport can influence both social and political history.
The illustrated poetry of the First World War with photographs from the archives of The Daily Mail.