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A comprehensive, meticulously researched history of international rugby

About the Author

Huw Richards is the rugby correspondent of the Financial Times and has reported on over 200 rugby international games, including all five World Cups. He was also co-editor of Heart and Soul, More Heart and Soul and Raising the Dragon.

Reviews

An ambitious project, triumphantly realised
*Independent on Sunday*

Crammed with fact and leavened with anecdote . . . an utterly reliable guide
*Daily Telegraph*

Huw Richards has managed to distil the very essence of rugby union history into this one volume . . . an excellent chronicle
*The Independent*

Magnificent
*The Times*

Engagingly quirky
*Publishing News*

Full of incident, detail and gossip
*Daily Telegraph*

Astounding
*The Observer*