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Doherty, who confesses to having been “pretty average at tennis” as a young man , acknowledges the ambitious task he has set himself: “A book on empire, war and tennis? Why make the effort to travel this particular byroad?” Why? Because the ever-curious Doherty seeks connections between family history, military history and the DNA of sport – especially tennis, to which he was first exposed on a backyard court made of crushed termite-mounds.
He tells the stories of two of his maternal uncles, Charlie and Jack Byford, both keen tennis players who “with absolutely no prior military involvement, volunteered in 1940 to fight for Australia and Empire”. Charlie never came home; Jack did, although traumatised by his experiences. He once had two impressive mango trees cut down because he was convinced there might be snipers hiding up there.
Doherty is a bowerbird of a researcher and writer, attracted by anything shiny he unearths. His range of interests is reflected both in chapter headings – The Gentle Art of Ant-Bed Tennis Court Maintenance and Imperial Japan and the American Tension – and his references, which range from the war diaries of Edward “Weary” Dunlop to, by Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi.
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