Bradman's War

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Fine
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: Penguin
Publisher Place: Australia
Publisher Year: 2015
Edition: Reprint

Description: 433 pages. Book appears to have hardly been read and is in Fine condition throughout.

Publishers Description: Shortlisted for the 2013 Prime Ministers Literary Awards. The Australian and English Test cricketers who fought and survived together in WWII came home planning to resume the Ashes in a new spirit of friendship. Australias legendary captain had something else in mind. The 1948 Invincibles are the only Australian team to complete a tour of England undefeated. In his compelling account, Malcolm Knox exposes the mixed feelings among the fans, commentators and players from both teams about the manner in which their feats were achieved. At its heart was a rift between players who had experienced the horrors of active duty, epitomised by the fiery RAAF pilot Keith Miller, and those who had not, such as the invalided Bradman. Bradmans War celebrates the talents of Ray Lindwall, Sid Barnes, Lindsay Hassett, Bill Johnston, Arthur Morris and, of course, their irrepressible captain, but wonders if the Dons single-minded tactics, even against the war-ravaged veterans of the country clubs, cost Test cricket the opportunity to be played for the love of the game. About the Author Malcolm Knox is the former literary editor and award-winning cricket writer of the Sydney Morning Herald (where he broke the Norma Khouri story, for which he won one of his two Walkley Awards). His novels include The Life and the Ned Kelly Award-winning A Private Man, and his many non-fiction titles include Bradmans War, shortlisted in the 2013 Prime Ministers Literary Awards, The Greatest: The players, the moments, the matches 1993 - 2008 and The Captains: The story behind Australias second most important job. His latest book, Boom: The Underground History of Australia, From Gold Rush to GFC, won the 2013 Ashurst Business Literature Prize. Industry Reviews Succeed[s] brilliantly, deepening and complicating a cherished Australian myth without dispelling it Weekend Australian Knox has gone behind the headlines to launch a fast-paced and sometimes personal attack on a national hero ...Bradmans War is a book that will have cricket fans talking Herald Sun Poised and evocative The Age The last word on a seminal chapter in Australian sporting history Inside Sport

ISBN: 9780143572206