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It tells the story of talented sportsmen who, when war was declared on 4 August 1914, duly departed for France, Belgium and beyond, never again to see the rugby league towns and grounds they once so famously graced.   Among those who fell were three members of Great Britain’s 1914 summer tour to Australia and New Zealand. A number of other former internationals died too, as did many more who had earned top domestic honours with their clubs. Some of the youngest players were just embarking on professional careers and therefore never able to fulfil their potential.   Each player featured has a different tale to tell – from childhood to rugby stardom to enlistment into the British Army and, finally, the greatest sacrifice of all.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56312016503157,"sku":"9780995586161","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780995586161_18f15d16-c993-4825-9b89-907cf71c825a.jpg?v=1786015993"},{"product_id":"navigating-media-work","title":"Navigating Media Work","description":"Navigating Media Work offers a distinctive in-depth portrait of the moral perspectives and motivations of more than 100 recent college graduates in media-related fields, and how they have navigated the challenges of life and work after college.   Building on hundreds of hours of life story interviews and a multifaceted set of surveys, this volume provides a profile of graduates coming out of media-related majors and heading into the workplace. The book contributes to theorizing about moral formation and growth in media graduates – particularly character and virtue development – by charting moral growth and a solidifying moral identity shaped by life experiences from childhood through college to the workplace amid a rich network of relationships. It also adds to cross-disciplinary understanding of the moral psychology of emerging adults. It explores important implications for the pedagogy of media ethics and professional ethics more broadly, as well as insights for management and for the ethical practice of emerging adults entering the workplace across fields.   This book will interest graduate students and faculty with interests in moral psychology: primarily journalism, public relations, advertising, and media\/communication, but also psychology, philosophy, and business.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57502198137205,"sku":"9781041099871","price":171.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781041099871.jpg?v=1786781017"},{"product_id":"spirit-of-talk-talk","title":"Spirit of Talk Talk","description":"Spirit of Talk Talk is a finely crafted book conceived by Toby Benjamin, celebrating the music created by Talk Talk and illustrated with a treasure trove of images from long-time collaborator and renowned art designer James Marsh. Displayed alongside large original artworks and previously unseen sketches and alternative covers, are rare and previously unseen photographs of the band and a specially commissioned biography of Talk Talk by music journalist and author Chris Roberts. Photographic images have been supplied from the archives of photographers Lawrence Watson, Richard Haughton and Sheila Rock amongst others.The book includes the full transcript of Mark Hollis’s final interview about the band. Also numerous tributes and eulogies from musicians, artists, producers, and people who worked with the band and knew them intimately. There are also honest, touching, and revealing tributes from musicians, artists friends and fans who were, and continue to be, influenced by Talk Talk’s music.This paperback edition has 32 pages of new content including an extensive preface from founding member Simon Brenner,  interviews with Paul Webb and Lee Harris, exclusive interviews with a host of people connected to the band, among them musicians, engineers and musical collaborators, a wealth of new, unseen photographs and memorabilia taken from Simon Brenner’s personal archive - and a heartfelt afterword honouring founder and leader Mark Hollis.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57536561119605,"sku":"9781910978344","price":35.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781910978344.jpg?v=1788186643"}],"url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/collections\/author-chris-roberts.oembed","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}