Bradman's War
How the 1948 Invincibles Turned the Cricket Pitch into a Battlefield
- Paperback
464 pages
- Release Date
2 January 2015
Summary
The 1948 ‘Invincibles’ are the only Australian team to complete a tour of England undefeated. In his compelling account, Malcolm Knox exposes the mixed feelings among the fans, commentators and players - from both teams - about the manner in which their feats were achieved.
At its heart was a rift between players who had experienced the horrors of active duty, epitomised by the fiery RAAF pilot Keith Miller, and those who had not, such as the invalided Bradman.
Bradman’s W…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780143572206 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0143572202 |
| Author: | Malcolm Knox |
| Publisher: | Penguin Random House Australia |
| Imprint: | Penguin Random House Australia |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 464 |
| Release Date: | 2 January 2015 |
| Weight: | 368g |
| Dimensions: | 29mm x 128mm x 198mm |
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Critics Review
‘Succeed[s] brilliantly, deepening and complicating a cherished Australian myth without dispelling it’ Weekend Australian ‘Knox has gone behind the headlines to launch a fast-paced and sometimes personal attack on a national hero …Bradman’s War is a book that will have cricket fans talking’ Herald Sun ‘Poised and evocative’ The Age ‘The last word on a seminal chapter in Australian sporting history’ Inside Sport
Malcolm Knox
Malcolm Knox was born in 1966 and grew up in Sydney. He studied in Sydney and Scotland, where his one-act play, Polemarchus, was performed in St Andrews and Edinburgh. He has worked for the Sydney Morning Herald since 1994, and his journalism has been published in Australia, Britain, India, and the West Indies.
His first novel, Summerland, was published to great acclaim in the UK, US, Australia, and Europe in 2000. In 2001, Malcolm was named one of the Sydney Morning Herald’s Best Young Australian Novelists. He lives in Sydney with his wife, Wenona, son, Callum, and daughter, Lilian.
His most recent novel, A Private Man, was critically acclaimed and was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Prize and the Tasmanian Premier’s Award. Malcolm Knox is the former literary editor and award-winning cricket writer of the Sydney Morning Herald, where he broke the Norma Khouri story, for which he won one of his two Walkley Awards.
His novels include A Private Man, winner of the Ned Kelly Award; The Life; and most recently The Wonder Lover. His many non-fiction titles include The Greatest: The Players, the Moments, the Matches 1993-2008; The Captains: The Story Behind Australia’s Second Most Important Job; Boom: The Underground History of Australia, From Gold Rush to GFC, which won the 2013 Ashurst Business Literature Prize; and Bradman’s War, shortlisted in the 2013 Prime Minister’s Literary Awards.
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