Football's Great War: Association Football on the English Home Front, 1914–1918 Environmental History compares widows’ lived experiences to

compares widows’ lived experiences to public memory

The city hummed with munition production from the Winchester Repeating Arms Company

and moral strength

In 1919 he came home from the war with a Croix de Guerre and a desire to write

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Football's Great War: Association Football on the English Home Front, 1914–1918 Environmental History compares widows’ lived experiences toDescription By Alexander Jackson Hardcover As modern football grapples with the implications of a global crisis, this book looks at first in the games history: The First World War. The games structure and fabric faced existential challenges as fundamental questions were asked about its place and value in English society. This study explores how conflict reshaped the Peoples Game on the English Home Front. The wartime seasons saw football's entire