Mark Mason

When the English cricket team toured Nazi Germany – and got smashed

A review of Field of Shadows: The English Cricket Tour of Nazi Germany, 1937, by Dan Waddell. This entertaining history includes some great myth-busting

C.B. Fry of England Photo: Allsport/Hulton Archive 
issue 07 June 2014
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  • Field of Shadows: The English Cricket Tour of Nazi Germany, 1937

    Dan Waddell

    Bantam, pp. 272

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