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A comprehensive, meticulously researched history of international rugby

About the Author

Huw Richards has been the Financial Times rugby correspondent since 1995. His other books on rugby include Dragons and All Blacks, which was nominated for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award.

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*