Generazione Wunderteam is the story of the Austrian national football team of the 1930s, an innovative side that dazzled Viennese crowds and sparked a new- found passion for football both at local and international level. The book tells the story of this unique team and its key figures alongside the historical vicissitudes of the inter-war years.
County Durham has a rich history and much has changed over the past 150 years. This new book from North East author Araf Chohan brings to light some of the memories of region through unique and rare photographs. See the towns and villages of County Durham, including Bishop Auckland, Crook, Stanley, Barnard Castle, Chester le Street, as well as the collieries, industries, people and landscape. In one rare image, the interior of a pub in Howden Colliery is shown in the late 1800s with staff and punters posing. Another shows an early motor car with its driver paying the toll to cross Abbey Bridge in Barnard Castle. The book also covers the magnificent city of Durham, too. Long a centre of religion, learning and commerce, this wonderful place retains a lot of its historic core. Yet, as these images prove, has also changed so much.
The Mitropa Cup was the inter-war equivalent of today's Champions League - and was born out of the frictions of a politically heated era. The top teams of the time have since fallen into oblivion, and the exploits of Europe's inter- war football stars are rarely remembered. The Forgotten Cup takes us back to that lost age.