The Hundred Years War Jamie Wall

ALLEN & UNWIN

The tour of South Africa’s rugby team, the Springboks, to New Zealand in 1981 triggered the largest act of civil disobedience in the country’s modern history. Thousands took to the streets in a culmination of years of anger about continued contact by the All Blacks with a team representing a racist apartheid regime. Jamie Wall weaves rugby and social history into this entertaining account, examining how the two cultures were brought together by rugby, torn apart by racism, then brought back together in a new era of rivalry.