We Rode All Day: The Story of the 1919 Tour de France

"Don't look up Firmin, just ride. Fight the pain, but don't look up."

Under grey skies and through the ruins of war, two veterans battled for the Tour's first yellow jersey. Firmin Lambot and Eugene Christophe had raced each other into the ground; the race had come down to what some riders were calling the hunger stage - 420km from Metz to Dunkirk.

We Rode All Day is the story of that fateful 1919 Tour de France; the Tour that very nearly never was. In the voices of the riders and race organi...