The Game In Time Of War
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''The Game in Time of War'' is a collection of essays and newspaper articles written by
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Martin Flanagan about
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. The theme of the content is analysis of the relation between Australian football and the participation of
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in wars.
Ross Fitzgerald Ross Andrew Fitzgerald (born in 1944) is an Australian academic, historian, novelist, secularist, and political commentator. Fitzgerald is an Emeritus Professor in History and Politics at Griffith University. He has published forty-three books ...
wrote that the book's first essay described the impact of
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on Australian football in compelling terms, but that it was a disjointed "
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" in the other essays.


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National Library of Australia book record
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