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Disqualified : Eddie Hart, Munich 1972, and the voices of the most tragic Olympics
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ISBN: 1631012614 1631012606 1606353128 Year: 2017 Publisher: Kent, Ohio : Black Squirrel Books,


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More than just games
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ISBN: 144262051X 9781442620513 9781442620520 1442620528 9781442649545 1442649542 9781442626904 1442626909 Year: 2015 Publisher: Toronto

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Held in Germany, the 1936 Olympic Games sparked international controversy. Should athletes and nations boycott the games to protest the Nazi regime? More Than Just Games is the history of Canada's involvement in the 1936 Olympics. It is the story of the Canadian Olympic officials and promoters who were convinced that national unity and pride demanded that Canadian athletes compete in the Olympics without regard for politics. It is the story of those Canadian athletes, mostly young and far more focused on sport thanpolitics, who were eager to make family, friends, and country proud of their efforts on Canada's behalf. And, finally, it is the story of those Canadians who led an unsuccessful campaign to boycott the Olympics and deny Nazi Germany the propaganda coup of serving as an Olympic host.Written by two noted historians of Canadian Jewish history, Richard Menkis and Harold Troper, More than Just Games brings to life the collision of politics, patriotism, and the passion of sport on the eve of the Second World War.


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Six minutes in Berlin
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ISBN: 0252099141 9780252099144 9780252040702 0252040708 9780252082214 0252082214 Year: 2016 Publisher: Urbana

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The Berlin Olympics, August 14, 1936. German rowers, dominant at the Games, line up against America's top eight-oared crew. Hundreds of millions of listeners worldwide wait by their radios. Leni Riefenstahl prepares her cameramen. Grantland Rice looks past the 75,000 spectators crowding the riverbank. Above it all, the Nazi leadership, flush with the propaganda triumph the Olympics have given their New Germany, await a crowning victory they can broadcast to the world. The Berlin Games matched cutting-edge communication technology with compelling sports narrative to draw the blueprint for all future sports broadcasting. Michael J. Socolow's account moves from the era's technological innovations to the human drama of how the race changed the lives of nine young men.


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Munich 1972
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ISBN: 1280671807 9786613648730 0742567419 9780742567412 9781280671807 9780742567399 0742567397 6613648736 Year: 2012 Publisher: Lanham, Md. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

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"Set against the backdrop of the turbulent late 1960s and early 1970s, this compelling book offers the first comprehensive narrative history of the 1972 Munich Olympic Games, notorious for the hostage taking by Palestinian terrorists of Jewish athletes and their tragic deaths after a botched rescue mission by German police. Drawing on a wealth of contemporaneous sources, including recently opened files in the German and Olympic archives, eminent historian David Clay Large offers a comprehensive exploration of the 1972 festival. He interweaves the political drama surrounding the Games with the athletic spectacle in the arena of play, itself hardly free of political controversy. Writing with flair and an eye for telling detail, Large brings to life the stories of the indelible characters who epitomized the Games, ranging from the city itself to the visionaries who brought the Games to Munich against all odds to the athletes, obscure and famous alike. With the Olympic movement in constant danger of terrorist disruption, and with the fortieth anniversary of the 1972 tragedy upon us in 2012, the Munich story is more timely than ever"--

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Terrorism --- Athletes --- Israelis --- Ethnology --- Jews --- Sports persons --- Sportspeople --- Sportspersons --- Sports personnel --- Acts of terrorism --- Attacks, Terrorist --- Global terrorism --- International terrorism --- Political terrorism --- Terror attacks --- Terrorist acts --- Terrorist attacks --- World terrorism --- Direct action --- Insurgency --- Political crimes and offenses --- Subversive activities --- Political violence --- Terror --- Violence against --- Munaẓẓamat Aylūl al-Aswad. --- Black September (Organization) --- Olympic Games --- Olimpiĭskie igry --- Olympic Games, --- Olympische Sommerspiele --- Summer Olympics --- Games of the Olympiad --- Olimpiese Somerspele --- Olimpiese Somerspele van die Olimpiade --- Chuegos Olimpicos --- Chuegos d'a Olimpiada d'a era muderna --- Yay Olimpiya Oyunları --- Летнія Алімпійскія гульні --- Letnii︠a︡ Alimpiĭskii︠a︡ hulʹni --- Гульні Алімпіяды --- Hulʹni Alimpii︠a︡dy --- Летни олимпийски игри --- Letni olimpiĭski igri --- Olimpijske igre --- Jocs Olímpics d'estiu --- Jocs Olímpics de la Olimpíada --- Letní olympijské hry --- Sommer-OL --- Olympiades Lege --- Spiele der Olympiade --- Aasta suveolümpiamängud --- Θερινοί Ολυμπιακοί Αγώνες --- Therinoi Olympiakoi Agōnes --- Αγώνες της Ολυμπιάδας --- Agōnes tēs Olympiadas --- Juegos Olímpicos --- Juegos de la Olimpiada --- Somera Olimpiko --- Someraj Olimpiaj Ludoj --- Udako Olinpiar Jokoak --- Jeux olympiques d'été

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