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    Over Land and Sea: Chelsea FC in the Great War
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    Over Land and Sea: Chelsea FC in the Great War

    By Alexandra Churchill and Andrew Holmes

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    Chelsea Football Club had only been in existence for nine years when war was declared in 1914, but had already experienced a whirlwind of highs and lows in the game. However, football – the ebb and flow of Saturday afternoon fortunes on the terraces – was about to recede into the background. At the front, players, staff and fans put aside their club differences to fight and die side by side with men from rival teams. On the home front, fund-raising and charity work dominated match days along with recruitment drives that culminated in the founding of a special footballers’ battalion. Whilst participating in a first FA Cup Final, Chelsea would face a fight to survive against a barrage of criticism from the press and politicians determined to portray continued participation in the game as a slight on patriotism and duty. Over Land and Sea examines how one club participated in the most savage conflict the world had yet seen.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherThe History Press
    Release dateJul 6, 2015
    ISBN9780750965422
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    Over Land and Sea: Chelsea FC in the Great War
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    Alexandra Churchill

    ALEXANDRA CHURCHILL is an author, researcher and historian who has contributed to and appeared on numerous television documentaries, including Timewatch (BBC2), Fighting the Red Baron (Channel 4) and Titanic with Len Goodman (BBC1). Her first book, the critically acclaimed Blood and Thunder: The Boys of Eton College and the First World War, was published in 2014. Her second book, Over Land and Sea: Chelsea FC in the Great War (2015), was her first collaboration with Andrew Holmes.

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