For those who look, and think deeply, new connections emerge. Peter Doherty, one of the world's foremost authorities on immunology, recipient of the Nobel Prize for medicine, and an active and respected commentator on public health, reflects in this book on empire, war and tennis.Doherty identifies the origins of modern tennis within its imperial context, relating seemingly unlikely connections between the sport, its players and national militaries. He traces the fate of tennis-and its players-as a nascent force for internationalism and cultural tolerance within the context of World War II. And he personalises this account through an unsentimental but revealing depiction of his tennis-loving Queenslander uncles, at war and in captivity in the Pacific.As Doherty shows, tennis and war have threaded their way through the lives of many people since the nineteenth century, in a way intriguingly unique to this sport.This is part of Peter's story. And, as we come to realise, it is also part of the story of our world.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Abbreviations
- 1 Introduction: War, Tennis, Family and Empire
- 2 The Real Game
- 3 Cricket, Lawn Tennis and the Galloping Majors
- 4 Peaceful Conflict
- 5 Terrain and Surfaces
- 6 Advantage Termites
- 7 A Normal Family
- 8 Splendid Little Wars
- 9 Imperial Japan and the American Tension
- 10 Players in 1914–18 and Beyond
- 11 Tennis and War in the Peaceful Pacific
- 12 The Byford Court and Their World
- 13 June 1939 to December 1940
- 14 Poles, Prose and Poetry
- 15 Malaya: Sydney to Seremban
- 16 To the Snows of Tripoli
- 17 Malaya: Down South to Disaster
- 18 Home Again
- 19 The Road to Mandalay
- 20 Prelude to Kokoda
- 21 Kokoda to Buna–Gona and Ravenshoe
- 22 The Office on the Railroad
- 23 Clearing Eastern PNG
- 24 The Home Front
- 25 The Battle of the Tennis Court
- 26 Lost at Sea
- 27 The Bomb from the Squash Court
- 28 Winning World War II: The Final Battle
- 29 Players in War: 1939–45
- 30 The World War II Tennis/Warrior Presidents
- 31 Into the Drink at Caloundra
- 32 The Gentle Art of Ant-bed Tennis Court Maintenance
- 33 Past to Present
- Appendices
- Acknowledgements
- Key References and Further Reading
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