Walter Tull 1888-1918 Officer Footballer. All the Guns in France could

[John_Hartley]

Anyone read this book which is reviewed in the sports section of today's Observer?

The review indicates the book concentrates on Tull's pre-war life which is, of course, better documented. The wartime period may not be as well based on fact the reviewer noting that the author uses "circumstantial evidence, wishful thinking and conjecture, but it is done plausibly and always with a dramatist's eye".

I may be doing Vasili an injustice but think he is the guy who featured in the TV programme about Tull making the completely unsubstantiated suggestion that Tull was denied an MC because he was black.