England Plays
''The Game''

• The English Review, 1915 •

"Playing the game is only half the battle in war [and]...it will be the finest game we ever have played."

Sporting terms used as a metaphors for war are very common and come naturally to those who tend to think about matters military on a regular basis; yet this article uses the expression, "playing the game" more as a character trait that was unique to the British. The author, Austin Harrison, writing in 1915 (the year of "grim determination") believed that the English have always "played the game" as a matter of course; they have always maintained "good form"...