Spitfire on the fairway
Subtitle: and other unexpected hazards of golf in wartime
By: Dale Concannon
Publisher: Aurum Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 138
ISBN-13: 9781854109347
Subjects: Golf; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Some early skirmishes : 1450 to 1750; title: When golf nearly died : 1751 to 1898; title: The Boer War: a high cost to pay : 1899 to 1902; title: Battle of the sexes : golf and the suffragettes : 1903 to 1913; title: World War I : the British Empire strikes back : 1914 to 1918; title: The niblick brigade; title: Prisoners of war : Ruhleben Country Club; title: America ponders whether to golf or not; title: Golf between the wars : 1919 to 1938; title: Golf in the Third Reich : 1932 to 1945; title: World War II : golf on the home front; title: Golf and the great escape; title: Uncle Sam goes to war : 1941 to 1946; title: Byron Nelson and his winning streak; title: Korea, Vietnam, and 9-11 : 1946 to modern times.