The true story of a moment of sporting history, when a British cricket team, 'The Gentlemen of Worcestershire' an ill-matched group of mavericks, minor nobility, ex-county cricketers, rich businessmen and callow schoolboys played 2 unofficial test matches against Germany, in 1937 in Berlin, against a backdrop of repression, brutality and sporadic gunfire, and under the shadow of the coming conflict. Now in paperback Adolf Hitler despised cricket, considering it un-German and decadent. And Berlin in 1937 was not a time to be going against Fuhrer's wishes. But hot on the heels of 1936 Olympics, an enterprising cricket fanatic of enormous bravery, Felix Menzel, somehow persuaded his Nazi leaders to invite an English team to play his motley band of part-timers.
