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Football, Bombs and Bullets: Sometimes More Than A Game

Football, Bombs and Bullets: Sometimes More Than A Game

Paperback

Series: War Stories, Book 6

Gifts & Stationery General

ISBN13: 9798370970986
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Dec 23 2022
Pages: 102
Weight: 0.32
Height: 0.21 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
George Orwell once claimed: Football has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence: in other words it is war minus the shooting. From the killing fields of the 1916 Somme, to the Azteca stadium in 1986. A selection of occasions when the beautiful game has been used both as a weapon and indeed a field for revenge. And much more. As the bullets flew and the bombs dropped the game has always continued on and on...

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