TY  - BOOK
AU  - Waddell,Dan
TI  - Field of shadows: the English cricket tour of Nazi Germany 1937
SN  - 9780593072615
U1  - 796.358 WAD 
PY  - 2014///
PB  - Bantam Press
KW  - Cricket
KW  - Germany
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Cricket matches
N2  - Adolf Hitler despised cricket, considering it un-German and decadent. And Berlin in 1937 was not a time to be going against the Fuhrer's wishes. But hot on the heels of the 1936 Olympics, an enterprising cricket fanatic of enormous bravery, Felix Menzel, somehow persuaded his Nazi leaders to invite an English team to play his motley band of part-timers. That team was the Gentlemen of Worcestershire, an ill-matched group of mavericks, minor nobility, ex-county cricketers, rich businessmen and callow schoolboys - led by former Worc
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