Trevor Frecknall, born and educated in Newark, covered mostly sporting dramas during 48 years in journalism Nottingham Forests European Cup triumphs when Brian Clough was winning everything but the Boat Race; athletics successes from Linford Christie and Sally Gunnell to Mo Farah and Jessica Ennis and has written several history books as well as All Lifes a Game about his Clough years. From the moment he began researching Newark in The Great War in 2012, he recognised this was the greatest challenge of his career to do justice to those who gave their all in The Great War.