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Pages: 385
Type: BOOK - Published: 2006-09-15 - Publisher: Pen and Sword
This “startlingly good and vividly illuminating book” sheds new light on the Fascist sports spectacle that transfixed the world (The Spectator). For two wee
Language: en
Pages: 237
Pages: 237
Type: BOOK - Published: 2006-09-15 - Publisher: Pen and Sword
For two weeks in August 1936, Nazi Germany achieved an astonishing propaganda coup when it staged the Olympic Games in Berlin. Hiding their anti-semitism and pl
Language: en
Pages: 277
Pages: 277
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-11-08 - Publisher: The History Press
The Berlin Olympic Games, more than 70 years on, remain the most controversial ever held. This book creates a vivid account of the disputes, the personalities,
Language: en
Pages: 438
Pages: 438
Type: BOOK - Published: 2007 - Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
"Nazi Games" recounts how the Olympic festival was a crucial part of the Nazi regime's mobilization of power. The narrative also includes a stirring account of
Language: en
Pages: 258
Pages: 258
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-03-02 - Publisher: Penguin
*"Rivaling the nonfiction works of Steve Sheinkin and Daniel James Brown's The Boys in the Boat....Even readers who don't appreciate sports will find this story
