I've just finished a really interesting wrestling history: THE MAN OF ALL TALENTS by Steven Bell and I would strongly recommend the book to all member of Wrestling Heritage.
You will get a picture of an amazing person in Douglas Clark that will grip your attention, a loving look at an era of Rugby League when Huddersfield were the premier team and a vivid picture of the start of professional wrestling in this country when it was first named "All-In Wrestling" meaning a mixture of styles from all over the world.
In a way the book "aged" me when I came across names of people, eminent in the 1920 - 30s who I knew quite in the 1960s. Names like George de Relwyskow (Junior) who used to promote at Belle Vue in Manchester and who encouraged me in my early days in wrestling and Jack Pye of Blackpool via Yorkshire. He is my all-time favourite wrestler. Jack was a quiet man with an outrageous ring persona and I enjoyed the honour of being refereed by him in a contest with Jim Moser at the Mecca in Blackpool some fifty years ago.
Steven Bell gives an extraordinary account of how our sport originated and developed from almost one hundred years ago into the current format that entertains so many fans today.
The book is available from Amazon as well as leading bookshops.
Eddie Rose (Manchester).