The book explores the significant, poignant and fascinating role of sport in the making of martial masculinity during, and its remaking after,the Great War.

1. Prologue: Making Men, Destroying Bodies: Sport, Masculinity and the Great WarExperience, Thierry Terret. Part One: Doing Sport, Preparing War and Vice-Versa: Continental Perspectives 2. Preface: Masters of the game, Jan Tolleneer. 3. Sport in the Trenches: The New Deal for Masculinity in France, Arnaud Waquet. 4. American Sammys and French Poilus in the Great War: Sport, Masculinities andVulnerability, Thierry Terret. 5. Wartime Rugby and Football: Sports Elites, French Military Teams and International Meets During the First World War, Arnaud Waquet and Joris Vincent. 6. Boccioni's Coin, Sergio Giuntini and Angela Teja. 7. Modern Pentathlon and the First World War: When Athletes and Soldiers Met to Practise Martial Manliness, Sandra Heck. Part Two: Victorian and Edwardian 'Anglo-Saxon' Attitudes to War 8. Preface: They Also Served - Re-evaluating and Reconsidering the Neglected, Robert Hands. 9. Tragic Symbiosis: Distinctive 'Anglo-Saxon' Visions and Voices, J.A. Mangan. 10. Happy Warriors in Waiting? Wykehamists and the Great War - Stereotypes, Complexities and Contradictions, J.A. Mangan. 11. In Memoriam: The Great War - John Bain, Elegist of Lost Boys and Lost Boyhoods, J.A. Mangan. 12. Rescued from Obscurity: Forgotten of the Great War - Elementary SchoolteacherSportsmen at the Front, J.A. Mangan and Colm Hickey. 13. Militarism, Drill and Elementary Education: Birmingham Nonconformist Responses to Conformist Responses to the Teutonic Threat Prior to the Great War, J.A. Mangan and Frank Galligan. 14. 'The Greater and Grimmer Game': Sport as an Arbiter of Military Fitness in the British Empire - The Case of 'One-Eyed' Frank Mcgee, Nic Clarke. 15. Epilogue: Armageddon 1914-1918: 'Anglo-Saxon' Voices Rediscovered and the Insignificant Reincarnated, J.A. Mangan.