Bøker av John Broom

From Darkness into Light tells the fascinating story of how a handful of intrepid cricketing soldiers helped save the game from oblivion. The Australian Imperial Forces cricket tour of 1919 helped to resurrect not only the English domestic game but Test cricket itself. The book fills an important gap in cricketing historiography.

Focusing on 100 objects that either directly influenced, or arose from, these changes, John Broom offers a distinctive insight into this fascinating age.

How English cricket coped with the cessation of first-class cricket for four summers and the worldwide game responded to a European conflict that became a world war.

This book traces the history of the searching services that were established to assist families in eliciting definitive news of their missing loved ones.

Using much previously unpublished material from public and private family archives, this book charts the story of those who remained true to the motto of the RAMC: Faithful in Adversity.