Tribes: An International Hockey History, Fosty Darril, Fosty George

The book looks at the game of ice hockeys European origins while adding additional information to the story of Canadian ice hockey including new information about the Colored Hockey League and the history of black Canadian and American ice hockey putting the Black ice hockey experience into a larger relation with international hockey of its time.

In addition, Tribes dives into1890s ideology when athletes first began to compete under the banners of nations. Following World War I, and as a result of the worldwide growth and popularity of the Olympics, the game of ice hockey took on a more complex form as teams representing countries as cultural differences, political ideologies, and blind nationalism supplanted sportsmanship. Pride and emotion replaced reason.

From North America to Nazi Germany, and on to the gates of Moscow, what were designed to be hockey games of goodwill became battles. The Great War was over; the longest undeclared war of nations was about to begin.