Resources

Football and War Reference List

World War One and World War Two

Iain Adams, ‘A Game for Christmas? The Argylls, Saxons and Football on the Western Front, December 1914’, The International Journal of the History of Sport 32.11-12 (2015): 1395-1415.

Iain Adams, ‘Did “Old Bill” Watch Football? Bruce Bairnsfather and the Christmas Truce’, in Sport and Leisure on the Eve of the First World War, ed. Dave Day (Crewe: MMU Sport and Leisure History, 2016).

Iain Adams and Trevor Petney, ‘Germany 3 – Scotland 2: No Man’s Land, 25th December 1914: Fact or Fiction’, in The Bountiful Game? Football Identities and Finances, eds. Alan Tomlinson, Alan Bairner, and Jonathon (Oxford: Meyer & Meyer Sport, 2005).

Malcolm Brown and Shirley Seaton, Christmas Truce: The Western Front, December 1914 (Basingstoke and Oxford: Pan, 2001).

Malcolm Brown, ‘The Christmas Truce 1914: The British Story’, in Meetings in No Man’s Land: Christmas 1914 and fraternization in the Great War, eds. Marc Ferro, Malcolm Brown, Rémy Cazals and Olaf Mueller (London: Constable & Robinson, 2007).

F.C. Collier, ‘No ‘ell in Houplines, Christmas Day, 1914’, The Thin Red Line, (January 1965): 6-7.

Emma Hanna, ‘Myth & Reality: The Christmas Truce, 1914’, The Western Front Association Bulletin 101 (March 2015): 12-13.

M. Jürgs, Der Kleine Frieden im Grossen Krieg (München: C. Bertelsmann, 2003).

Pehr Thermaenius, The Christmas Match (London: Uniform Press, 2014).

Stanley Weintraub, Silent Night: The Remarkable Christmas Truce of 1914 (London: Pocket Books, 2002).

Iain Adams, ‘Over the Top: “A Foul; a Blurry Foul!”’ The International Journal of the History of Sport 29.6 (2012): 813-831.

Iain Adams, ‘Over the Top: Images of the Football Charges of the Great War’, Journal of Sport History, 43.2 (2016): 192-211.

Ed Harris, The Footballer of Loos (Stroud: The History Press, 2009).

Ruth Elwin Harris, Billie: The Nevill Letters: 1914-1916 (Uckfield: The Naval & Military Press, 2003).

Jack Alexander, McCrae’s Battalion: The Story of the 16th Royal Scots (Edinburgh: Mainstream, 2004).

Andrew Riddoch and John Kemp, When the Whistle Blows: The Story of the Footballers’ Battalion in the Great War (Yeovil: Haynes, 2011).

Patrick Brennan, The Munitionettes: A History of Women’s Football in North East England During the Great War (Tyne and Wear: Donmouth, 2007).

Robert Hess, ‘Playing with “Patriotic Fire”: Women and Football in the Antipodes during the Great War’, The International Journal of the History of Sport 28.3-4 (2011): 351-371.

Robert Hess, ‘Missing in Action? New Perspectives on the Origins and Diffusion of Women’s Football in Australia during the Great War’, The International Journal of the History of Sport 31.18 (2014): 2326-2344.

Barbara Jacobs, The Dick Kerr’s Ladies (London: Robinson, 2004).

Gail J. Newsham, In a League of Their Own! The Dick, Kerr Ladies 1917-1965 (Rothersthorpe: Paragon, 2014)

Tim Tate, Girls with Balls: The Secret History of Women’s Football (London: John Blake, 2013)

Jack McInroy, Hussein Hagazi - Dulwich Hamlet's Egyptian King (London, Hamlet Historian, 2019)

Douglas H. Smith, MBE, Who's For The Game: The Story of the Men from Four Birmingham Sports Clubs who Died in World War 1 (Studley, Brewin Books, 2019)

Alexandra Churchill and Andrew Holmes, Over Land and Sea: Chelsea FC in the Great War (Stroud: The History Press, 2015)

Roger Deason, “When Shall Their Glory Fade?” Dulwich Hamlet: First World War Roll of Honour (London: Hamlet Historian, 2015).

Aidan Hamilton, Have You Ever Played in Brazil? The Story of Exeter City's 1914 Tour to South America (Exeter: Exeter City AFC Supporters Society, 2014)

Paul Lunney, Celtic War Heroes: The Bhoys Who Went to War (Leith: Black and White, 2014). This covers Celtic players who fought in both 1914-1918 and 1939-1945.

Ian McCallum, The Celtic, Glasgow Irish and the Great War: The Storms Break (Mr Ian McCellum BEM, 2014).

Assaf Mond, ‘Chelsea Football Club and the Fight for Professional Football in First World War London’, The London Journal 41.3 (2016): 266-280.

Tom Purdie, Hearts at War 1914-1919 (Stroud: Amberley, 2014)

Paul Smith, Aye Ready: Rangers War Heroes (Leith: Black and White, 2017)

Elliott Taylor, Up the Hammers!: The West Ham Battalion in the Great War (CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2012).

Paul Brown, The Ruhleben Football Association (CountyDurham: Goal Post, 2020)

Iain Adams, ‘Football: A Counterpoint to the Procession of Pain on the Western Front, 1914-1918?’ Soccer & Society 16.2-3 (2015): 217-231.

Iain Adams and John Hughson, ‘The First Ever Anti-Football Painting? A Consideration of the Soccer Match in John Singer Sargent’s Gassed’, Soccer & Society 14.4 (2013): 502-514,

Andrew Beaujon, A Bigger Field Awaits Us: The Scottish Football team that Fought the Great War (Chicago: Chicago Review Press, 2018).

Matthew Bell, Red White and Khaki: The Story of the Only Wartime FA Cup Final (Hope Valley: Peak, 2011).

Derek Birley, ‘Sportsmen and the Deadly Game’, The International Journal of the History of Sport 3.3 (1986): 288-310.

James Dunbar Campbell, ‘The Army Isn’t All Work: Physical Culture in the Evolution of the British Army, 1860-1920’ (PhD diss., University of Maine, 2003).

Stephen Cooper, The Final Whistle: The Great War in Fifteen Players (Stroud: Spellmount, 2013).

J.G. Fuller, Troop Morale and Popular Culture in the British and Dominion Armies 1914-1918 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1990).

Clive Harris and Julian Whippy, The Greater Game: Sporting Icons who Fell in the Great War (Barnsley, Pen & Sword, 2008).

Alex Jackson (ed.), The Greater Game: A History of Football in World War I (Oxford: Shire Publications, 2014).

Brandon Luedtke, ‘Playing Fields and Battlefields: The Football Pitch, England and the First World War’, Britain and the World, 5.1 (2012): 96-115.

Brian McColl, A record of British Wartime Football: Gates and Results of Every Match Played in Great Britain and Northern Ireland During Two World Wars (Lulu.com, 2014).

Nigel McCrery, The Final Season: The Footballers Who Fought and Died in the Great War (London: Arrow, 2015).

David Monger, ‘Sporting Journalism and the Maintenance of British Servicemen’s Ties to Civilian Life in First World War Propaganda’, Sport in History 30.3 (2010): 374-401.

George Myerson, Fighting for Football: From Woolwich Arsenal to the Western Front: The Lost Story of Football’s First Rebel (London: Aurum, 2009).

Eliza Reidi and Tony Mason, ‘“Leather” and the Fighting Spirit: Sport in the British Army in World War I’, Canadian Journal of History XLI (Winter 2006): 485-516.

James Roberts, ‘“The Best Football Team, The Best Platoon”: The Role of Football in the Proletarianization of the British Expeditionary Force, 1914-1918’, Sport in History, 26.1 (2006): 24-46.

Ian Syson, ‘Fronting Up: Australian Soccer and the First World War’, The International Journal of the History of Sport 31.18 (2014): 2345-2361.

Tim Tate, For Team and Country: Sport on the Front Lines of the Great War (London: Metro, 2014).

Thierry Terret, ‘Prologue: Making Men, Destroying Bodies: Sport, Masculinity and the Great War Experience’, The International Journal of the History of Sport 28.3-4 (2011): 323-329.

Wray Vamplew, ‘Exploding the Myths of Sport and the Great War: A First Salvo’, The International Journal of the History of Sport 31.18 (2014): 2297-2312.

Phil Vasili, Walter Tull 1888 – 1918 Officer Footballer: All the Guns in France Couldn’t Wake Me (Raw, 2009)

Colin Veitch, ‘“Play Up! Play Up! And Win the War!” Football, the Nation and the First World War 1914-15’, Journal of Contemporary History, 20 (1985): 363-378.

Spencer Vignes, Lost in France: The Remarkable Life and Death of Leigh Roose, Football’s First Superstar (Durrington: Pitch, 2016).

Stephen Walker, Ireland’s Call: Irish Sporting Heroes Who fell in the Great War (Sallins: Merrion, 2015).

Arnaud Waquet and Joris Vincent, ‘Wartime Rugby and Football: Sports Elites, French Military Teams and International Meets During the First World War’, The International Journal of the History of Sport 28.3-4 (2011): 372-392.

Ross J. Wilson, ‘It Still Goes On: Football and the Heritage of The Great War in Britain’, Journal of Heritage Tourism, 9.3 (2014): 197-211.

Stephen Wynn, Against All Odds: Walter Tull the Black Lieutenant (Barnsley: Pen and Sword, 2018).

Dejan Zec, Filip Baljkas and Miloš PaunoviС́ (eds.), Sport Remembers: Serbian-British Sporting Contacts During the First World War (Belgrade: Centre for Sports Heritage – South East Europe, 2016).

Malcolm Hamer, Patriotic Games (London: Acorn Independent Press, 2013)

Allan Ahlberg, The Boyhood of Burglar Bill (London, Puffin, 2007)

Heather Morris, The Tattooist of Auschwitz (London, Zafre, 2018)

Markus Zusak, The Book Thief (London, Black Swan, 2007)

David Bolchover, The Story of Béla Guttman - The Greatest Comeback: From Genocide to Football Glory (Biteback Publishing: London, 2017)

Hans Bonde, Football with the Foe: Danish Football Under the Swastika (Odense: University Press of Southern Denmark, 2008).

Hans Bonde, ‘Danish Sport and the Nazi Seizure of Power: Indoctrination, Propaganda and Confrontation’, The International Journal of the History of Sport 26.10 (2009): 1458-1480.

Hans Bonde, ‘Revolt: Danish Resistance to Sports Collaboration with Nazi Germany’, The International Journal of the History of Sport 26.10 (2009): 1481-1503.

Robert Bradley and Douglas Gorman, 50 Football Heroes: In War and Peace (Lulu: Online Publisher, 2019) - http://www.lulu.com/shop/douglas-gorman-and-robert-bradley/50-football-heroes-in-war-and-peace/paperback/product-24226239.html

Catrine Clay, Trautmann’s Journey: From Hitler Youth to FA Cup Legend (London: Yellow Jersey Press, 2010).

Peter Daniel, Bartram Saves The Day (Charlton Athletic Football Club and Greenwich Council: London, 2005)

Peter Daniel, Bartram – The Blitz and Beyond (London Borough of Bexley: London, 2010)

Anthony Dougan, Defending the Honour of Kiev Dynamo (London: Fourth Estate, 2002).

Nils Havermann, Fußball unterm Hakenkreuz: Der DFB zwischen Sport, Politik und Kommerz (Frankfurt: Campus Verlag, 2005). (Soccer beneath the swastika: the German Football Association between sport, politics and commerce).

Markwart Herzog and Fabian Brändle (eds.), Europäischer Fussball im Zweiten Weltkrieg (Stuttgart: Verlag W. Kohlhammer, 2015). (European Football in the Second World War).

Steve Hunnisett, For Freedom - Dulwich Hamlet: Second World War Roll of Honour (London: Hamlet Historian, 2017).

Bruce Kennedy, ‘” Carry On”: The Response of the Victorian Football League to the Challenges of World War II’, The International Journal of the History of Sport 31.18 (2014): 2388-2404.

Simon Kuper, Ajax, The Dutch, The War: Football in Europe During the Second World War. (London: Orion, 2003).

Peng Han Lim and Mohammed Salleh Aman, ‘The Sporting Lives of Sir Shenton Thomas and the Male European Internees at Changi Prison Camp During the Japanese Occupation of Singapore, 1942-1945’, The

International Journal of the History of Sport 32.3 (2015): 466-483.

Matthias Marschik, ‘Between Manipulation and Resistance: Viennese Football in the Nazi Era’, Journal of Contemporary History 34.2 (1999): 215-229.

Tony McCarthy, War Games: The Story of Sport in World War Two (London: Queen Anne Press, 1989).

Niels Kayser Nielson, ‘Sport at the Front: Football in Finland During the Second World War’ Sport in History 24.1 (2004): 63-76.

Tim Purcell and Mike Gething, Wartime Wanderers: A Football Team at War (Edinburgh: Mainstream, 1996).

Alan Rowlands, Trautman – The Biography (Derby Books Publishing: Derby, 2011)

Anton Rippon, Gas Masks for Goal Posts: Football in Britain during the Second World War (Stroud: Sutton, 2007)

Jack Rollin, Soccer at War 1939-1945: The Complete Record of British Football and Footballers During the Second World War (London: Headline, 2005).

Johnny Sherwood and Michael Doe, Lucky Johnny – The Footballer who Survived the River Kwai Death Camps (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 2014).

Kevin Simpson, Soccer Under the Swastika (Lanham: Rowan and Littlefield, 2016)

Matthew Taylor: The People’s Game and the People’s War: Football, Class and Nation in Wartime Britain, 1939-1945

Andrew Ward, Armed with a Football – A Memoir of Tim Ward, Footballer and Father (Oxford: Crowbury, 1994).

General Football and War

Martyn Routledge and Elspeth Wells, The Beautiful Badge: The Stories Behind The Football Club Badge (Durrington: Pitch Publishing, 2018)

Scott Aikin, ‘A Defense of War and Sport Metaphors in Argument’, Philosophy and Rhetoric 44.3 (2011):250-272.

John Daye, Encyclopedia of Armed Forces Football: The Complete History of the Glory Years (Haworth, NJ: St. Johann, 2014).

Mark Herzog (ed.), Memorialkultur im Fussballsport:Medien, Rituale and Practicken des Erinnerns, Gedenkens und Vergessens (Stuttgart: W. Kohlhammer, 2012). Memorial Culture in Football: Media, Rituals and Practices of Remembering, Remembrance and Forgetting.

Ryszard Kapuscinski, The Soccer War (London: Granta, 2007). Ryszard Kapuscinski was the only Polish Press Agency foreign correspondent from 1964 and for ten years he reported from 50 countries. Including the fighting between Honduras and El Salvador in 1969 after their matches to determine which one of them would qualify for the 1970 World Cup.

Tony Mason and Eliza Reidi, Sport and The Military: The British Armed Forces 1880-1960 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010).

Floris J.G. Van Der Merwe, ‘Sport and Games in Boer Prisoner-of-War Camps During the Anglo-Boer War 1899-1902’, The International Journal of the History of Sport 9.3 (2007): 439-454.

Simon Martin, Football and Fascism - The National Game Under Mussolini (Oxford: Berg, 2004)

Gavin Mortimer, Fields of Glory – The Extraordinary Lives of 16 Warrior Sportsmen (London: Andre Deutsch, 2001) Chapter Three – Donald Bell; Chapter Six – Charlie Buchan

Brothers in Football (2018) A BT Sport Films Production - https://sport.bt.com/football/brothers-in-football-the-story-of-the-non-league-club-who-became-stars-in-brazil-S11364303446722

Don Patricio (2019) A Mulberry Media Production - http://www.donpatricio.tv/

The Keeper (2018) A Zephyr Films and Lieblingsfilm Production - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46omuW8TvX8

Sport in History Podcast 23 – Professor Gary Sheffield (2019) https://alondonjournal.net/2019/11/24/sport-in-history-podcast-23-prof-gary-sheffield/

 

Grecians and War: Commemorating our Heritage

In partnership with Exeter City Supporters’ Trust History Group, Exeter City Football Club Museum Trust and Exeter City Football Club Senior Reds

4th October 2019

http://grecianarchive.exeter.ac.uk/exhibits/show/celebrating_our_heritage/ecfc-museum-football---war

Sue O’Connell, The Man Who Saved FC Barcelona: The Remarkable Life of Patrick O’Connell (Stroud: Amberley, 2016)

Sid Lowe, Fear and Loathing in La Liga: Barcelona vs Real Madrid (London: Yellow Jersey Press, 2013)

England’s Oldest Football Clubs 1815-1889: A new chronological classification of early football (Folk, School, Military, County, Rugby, & Association) – Martin Westby 2019

Chapter Three: A Chronological history of Association playing Military teams (1844-1888), featuring a section on the Volunteer Movement.