Final Scrum: Rugby Internationals Killed in the Second World War by Nigel McCrery
English | February 28th, 2018 | ISBN: 1473894506 | 200 Pages | EPUB | 18.72 MB
After the terrible losses of The Great War, twenty years later the Second World War resulted in the death of some of the finest sporting icons. This book honors the ninety International Rugby players who lost their lives. Fifteen were Scottish, fourteen English, eleven Welsh and eight Irish. Australia and New Zealand suffered with ten and two Internationals killed respectively and France eight. Germany topped the list with nineteen.