'Sport prepares you for many of the challenges you will face in life, but certainly not for War. The friendship and camaraderie of the changing room helps to bond and unite a team and, with this in mind, I can fully understand why so many sports teams joined up en masse and answered Lord Kitchener's rallying cry of Your Country needs you. But, just as these men played together on the cricket fields of Wales, many died together on the battlefields of Europe'.Huw Morris, from the Foreword 'Front Foot' to 'Front Line' commemorates the significant contribution made by the cricketers of Wales to the military services during the 'Great War' of 1914-18.The distinguished author, and leading authority on Welsh Cricket, Andrew Hignell, follows the major themes and battles of the war to chronicle those professional and amateur cricketers from Wales who lost their lives as servicemen on the bloody battlefields of Europe as well as those who returned home permanently affected by their experiences of the horror of warfare. The book also highlights the involvement of others involved at the grassroots of Welsh club cricket who also served. 'Front Foot' to 'Front Line' will be of great interest to the large Welsh cricketing fraternity as well as to those with an interest in military history.