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All in all this is an absorbing book and a valuable contribution to the game's literature which I have no hesitation in recommending to anyone with an interest in the era. -- Martin Chandler ... sense of cricket continuing, of life returning from the ashes of war, is a theme of the book, although the author is careful not to overplay it... Rowe is no starry-eyed romantic. He views everything with the unsentimental and iconoclastic eye of the historian and is not afraid to challenge received wisdom. -- Richard Lawrence The impressive SportsBooks imprint makes a truly triumphant debut with Marl Rowe's The Victory tests, non-stop insights and revelations on the epic 1945 'Ashes' series which lit up the peace, and a must for oldie cricket nuts of a certain generation. -- Frank Keating The Oldie ...a vivid and passionate account of that extraordinary summer. Combining breathless accounts of the matches with wide ruminations on the game as it was then, Rowe has produced a fascinating book of a golden summer that rivals any of the great Ashes contests. -- James Holland
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All in all this is an absorbing book and a valuable contribution to the game’s literature which I have no hesitation in recommending to anyone with an interest in the era. (Martin Chandler )
... sense of cricket continuing, of life returning from the ashes of war, is a theme of the book, although the author is careful not to overplay it... Rowe is no starry-eyed romantic. He views everything with the unsentimental and iconoclastic eye of the historian and is not afraid to challenge received wisdom. (Richard Lawrence )
The impressive SportsBooks imprint makes a truly triumphant debut with Marl Rowe’s The Victory tests, non-stop insights and revelations on the epic 1945 ‘Ashes’ series which lit up the peace, and a must for oldie cricket nuts of a certain generation. (Frank Keating The Oldie )
...a vivid and passionate account of that extraordinary summer. Combining breathless accounts of the matches with wide ruminations on the game as it was then, Rowe has produced a fascinating book of a golden summer that rivals any of the great Ashes contests. (James Holland )
... sense of cricket continuing, of life returning from the ashes of war, is a theme of the book, although the author is careful not to overplay it... Rowe is no starry-eyed romantic. He views everything with the unsentimental and iconoclastic eye of the historian and is not afraid to challenge received wisdom. (Richard Lawrence )
The impressive SportsBooks imprint makes a truly triumphant debut with Marl Rowe’s The Victory tests, non-stop insights and revelations on the epic 1945 ‘Ashes’ series which lit up the peace, and a must for oldie cricket nuts of a certain generation. (Frank Keating The Oldie )
...a vivid and passionate account of that extraordinary summer. Combining breathless accounts of the matches with wide ruminations on the game as it was then, Rowe has produced a fascinating book of a golden summer that rivals any of the great Ashes contests. (James Holland )
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You may think ahead of the upcoming ashes cricket tour in Australia that everything to say about England-Australia has been said. It hasn't because here is a book about a forgotten yet special series, the victory tests of 1945. Although Mark Rowe is English, he has gone to as much trouble to tell the Australian side as the English. While the author does not lay it on with a trowel, between the lines you can see the contrast of the cricket of that summer of 1945 when both sides shared the euphoria of the death of Hitler (no fan of cricket and neither was Churchill) and victory in Europe with the big money and sad shortcomings of international cricket today. And it is only a side issue but Rowe has something original and even shocking to tell the cricket world about Keith Miller. For decades everyone has written of the charismatic Australian all rounder as a war hero. Rowe shows that this was actually not the whole story. There is more to it than that,but buy the book to find out!
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