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Jack Beresford: An Olympian at War by John Beresford

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The Cloister House Press, Gloucester, (2019) £14.99, hb, £11.99, pb, 124pp, 38 ills..ISBN: 978–190–946–589–3 [This review featured in the February 2020  issue of Stand To! No.117] I love the alliteration in the title of Amiel Price’s privately published book! The subject of From Handsworth to Hebron is the author’s grandmother, Amiel Robins, and...

The winner of the 1900 Paris Olympics 'Underwater 60m swimming event' who died in the First World War

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In the wonderful potpourri of stories that make up ‘The Extinguished Flame: Olympians killed in the Great War’ the author (and TV scriptwriter) Nigel McCrery tells the story of Charles Devendeville. At the 1900 Paris Olympics the Seine was used for all swimming events, including freestyle, backstroke and breaststroke (butterfly didn’t yet exist)...

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