Traces the development of U.S. military sports and explains how and why the American armed forces embraced sports as a crucial part of training and entertainmen

The institutional relationship between sport and the military appears to be intensifying. In the US for example, which faced global criticism for its foreign po

On battleships, behind the trenches of the Western Front and in the midst of the Desert War, British servicemen and women have played sport in the least promisi

Drawing on newspaper accounts, college yearbooks and the recollections of veterans, this book examines the impact of World War I on sports in the U.S. As young

The Great War has been largely ignored by historians of sport. However sport was an integral part of cultural conditioning into both physiological and psycholog