An interesting enough review of Australian cricketers taking time out from their training schedules to fight for Australia in wartime. The most famous mentioned is Keith Miller, while Test players JJ. Ferris, Tibby Cotter and Laurie Nash, among others, also get decent entries, as well as a smattering of first-class players, including Charles Backman, the first Australian first-class cricketer to die in WWI, and Norman Calloway, who made a double century in his only first-class outing before also dying in World War I.

However, while we get a lot on Bradman, who spent most of WII as an invalid, with comparatively little on first-class cricketers who spent the war fighting overseas, including, for example, South Australian Bruce Bowley who was captured during the Fall of Singapore and spent years in Changi Prison, but sadly doesn't rate a mention.

Otherwise, beyond learning that apparently no Australian cricketers served in the Korean War, there is a good section on Australia's only living Test cricketer who fought in a warzone; Tony Dell, whose life post-cricketing career has not been a happy one but who at least seems to be on a better wicket now. ( )