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Biggles suffers a disappointment in the First World War, when he falls in love with German spy Marie Janis in the short story "Affaire de Coeur", set in 1918. Rather than being considered asexual or a repressed homosexual, Biggles' relationship with Janis suggests he is a romantic hero , "tragically loyal to the only woman he ever really loved".
FC 1880 Frankfurt at the 1900 Olympic Games. Rugby football was an early arrival in Germany. The first German rugby team existed at Neuenheim College – now called Heidelberg College – in Heidelberg. Around 1850, the game started to attract the attention of the students.
The Book of Feuds is a book commissioned by South Sydney Rabbitohs co-owner Russell Crowe to chronicle the rivalries of the rugby club and to be used as a motivational tool. A chapter is dedicated to each of their 15 National Rugby League competitors. [1] It was written by Mark Courtney.
Craigie, James, ed. Minor Prose Works of James VI and James I. Scottish Text Society, 1982: 217–241. George, David, ed. Records of Early English Drama: Lancashire. University of Toronto Press, 1991. Govett, L. A. The King's Book of Sports: A History of the Declarations of King James I. and King Charles I. as to the Use of Lawful Sports on ...
James Riordan (10 October 1936 – 11 February 2012) [1] [2] [3] was an English novelist, broadcaster, sports historian, and Russian scholar. [ 4 ] He was well known for his work Sport in Soviet Society , the first academic look at sport in the Soviet Union, and for his children's novels.
Tom Brown's School Days (sometimes written Tom Brown's Schooldays, also published under the titles Tom Brown at Rugby, School Days at Rugby, and Tom Brown's School Days at Rugby) [1] [2] is a novel by Thomas Hughes, published in 1857. The story is set in the 1830s at Rugby School, an English public school. Hughes attended Rugby School from 1834 ...
Fraser was working as a journalist on The Glasgow Herald when he wrote the first novel, Flashman; writing in the evenings, after work, he took 90 hours in total to write the story. [7] [8] After the book was published, he left journalism and took up writing novels. [7] When a break from writing was forced upon him by a broken arm, he abandoned ...
The Young Bond series of novels was started by Charlie Higson [110] and, between 2005 and 2009, five novels and one short story were published. [111] The first Young Bond novel, SilverFin was also adapted and released as a graphic novel on 2 October 2008 by Puffin Books. [112] Comic book artist Kev Walker illustrated Higson's novel. [113]