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Golf In Time of War Dale Concannon Historic Photos 04 Bullets Bombs & Birdies
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Like New
- Seller Notes
- “2004 Hardcover, 204 pgs. Illustrated”
- Special Attributes
- 1st Edition, Illustrated
- Subject
- Sports & Recreation
- ISBN
- 9781932202144
- EAN
- 9781932202144
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, John
ISBN-10
1932202145
ISBN-13
9781932202144
eBay Product ID (ePID)
30470003
Product Key Features
Book Title
Bullets, Bombs and Birdies : Golf in the Time of War
Number of Pages
142 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2004
Topic
Golf, Military / General
Genre
Sports & Recreation, History
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
0.6 in
Item Weight
10.7 Oz
Item Length
8.8 in
Item Width
5.7 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2003-020319
Dewey Edition
22
Dewey Decimal
796.352/09
Table Of Content
INTRODUCTION.PROLOGUE.I. Some Early Skirmishes: 1450 to 1750.II. When Golf Nearly Died: 1751 to 1898.III. The Boer War: A High Cost to Pay: 1899 to 1902.IV. Battle of the Sexes: Golf and the Suffragettes: 1903 to 1913.V. World War I: The British Empire Strikes Back: 1914 to 1918.VI. The Niblick Brigade.VII. Prisoners of War: Ruhleben Country Club.VIII. America ponders whether to golf or not....IX. Golf between the Wars: 1919 to 1938.X. Golf in the Third Reich: 1934 to 1945.XI. World War II: Golf on the Home Front.XII. Golf and the Great Escape.XIII. Uncle Sam goes to War: 1941 to 1946.XIV. Byron Nelson and his Winning Streak.XV. Back to the Future: Korea, Vietnam and 9-11: 1946 to modern times.BIBLIOGRAPHY.
Synopsis
Ever since the game began--possibly as far back as the 11th century--golf and war have been oddly connected. In 1457, for example, the King of Scotland banned "gowlf" because his subjects were spending more time on the local links than they were at archery practice--bows and arrows being the country's main weapons of defense at the time. In August 1940--hightailing it home after a raid on Aberdeen, Scotland--a German aircraft dropped a bomb over nearby Stonehaven Golf Club. The large crater that it left between the first and second fairways is still there today and is considered the course's most famous hazard. Local golfers refer to it as "Hitler's Bunker." Those stories, and many more, are included in Bullets, Bombs & Birdies: Golf in the Time of War. Until now, most history books on golf have tended to skip over the wartime years as if the game was completely abandoned during those tenuous times. This new book by Dale Concannon clearly shows that over many centuries of conflict, dedicated practitioners of the Royal and Ancient game have let nothing--not mortar shells, the threat of gas attacks, or even incarceration in a POW camp--get in the way of a round of golf.
LC Classification Number
GV963.C62 2004
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