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Examines the 1972 Olympic games, from the city of Munich itself and what the Olympics meant for the revitalization of the city, to the tragedy of the Israeli athletes who were murdered by Palestinian terrorists.
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In 1972, Munich was the site of the Olympics, thirty-six years after Adolph Hitler s Nazi regime hosted the games in Berlin. Now the Federal Republic had the chance to show off a new German face amid Cold War tensions with the Communist German Democratic Republic and a very different Munich, in some ways the cradle of the Nazis and Hitler s favorite city. But that is not what is remembered. Well into the games, amid woeful security centered on chain-linked fences, terrorists seized and then after a standoff killed Israeli athletes. David Clay Large follows his fine study of Hitler s Olympics with a gripping account of the Olympics of Terror, when the games went on, despite the tragedy that arguably signaled the new challenges and dangers of our world. Well-researched and crafted, Munich 1972 is an excellent, haunting book, one that matters even more now.--John Merriman
This fluent, measured, and thorough book is a worthy successor to David Large's fine earlier study of the Nazi Games in Berlin. Once more, Large uncovers surprising twists in an ultimately tragic story and adeptly skewers the pretensions and hypocrisies of the modern Olympic movement.--Peter Hayes, Northwestern University
David Clay Large has written a captivating history of the 1972 Munich Olympics. Munich 1972 is both terrific sporting history and a gripping chronicle of the Black September terror attack that took the lives of eleven Israeli Olympians. It is a tale of human frailty, incompetence, and unintended consequences. It will surely stand as the definitive history of a turning point in the Olympic saga.--Kai Bird, Pulitzer Prize winning biographer and author of Crossing Mandelbaum Gate"
A gripping account of the Olympics of Terror, when the games went on, despite the tragedy that arguably signaled the new challenges and dangers of our world. Well-researched and crafted, Munich 1972 is an excellent, haunting book, one that matters even more now.--John Merriman, Yale University"
Read this book! Munich 1972 is a sad, important, morally complicated story with many unexpected details and shocking revelations. What makes it a page-turner, as well as an elemental bit of 20th-century history, is that its author is a real writer sometimes caustic, always humane as well as an eminent historian of modern Germany. David Large, the wry professor, has done it again.--David Quammen, author of The Song of the Dodo and Spillover"
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This fluent, measured, and thorough book is a worthy successor to David Large's fine earlier study of the Nazi Games in Berlin. Once more, Large uncovers surprising twists in an ultimately tragic story and adeptly skewers the pretensions and hypocrisies of the modern Olympic movement.--Peter Hayes, Northwestern University
David Clay Large has written a captivating history of the 1972 Munich Olympics. Munich 1972 is both terrific sporting history and a gripping chronicle of the Black September terror attack that took the lives of eleven Israeli Olympians. It is a tale of human frailty, incompetence, and unintended consequences. It will surely stand as the definitive history of a turning point in the Olympic saga.--Kai Bird, Pulitzer Prize winning biographer and author of Crossing Mandelbaum Gate"
A gripping account of the Olympics of Terror, when the games went on, despite the tragedy that arguably signaled the new challenges and dangers of our world. Well-researched and crafted, Munich 1972 is an excellent, haunting book, one that matters even more now.--John Merriman, Yale University"
Read this book! Munich 1972 is a sad, important, morally complicated story with many unexpected details and shocking revelations. What makes it a page-turner, as well as an elemental bit of 20th-century history, is that its author is a real writer sometimes caustic, always humane as well as an eminent historian of modern Germany. David Large, the wry professor, has done it again.--David Quammen, author of The Song of the Dodo and Spillover"
David Clay Large is professor of history at Montana State University. He has also taught at Berkeley, Smith College, and Yale University. He is the author of several acclaimed histories, including Nazi Games: The Olympics of 1936, Where Ghosts Walked: Munich’s Road to the Third Reich, and Berlin. An avid athlete, Large, when not writing, teaching, or parenting (he has a nine-year-old daughter), can often be found running the roads of Bozeman, Montana, and San Francisco, California, the two places he calls home.
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- PublisherRowman & Littlefield Pub Inc
- Publication date2018
- ISBN 10 0742567400
- ISBN 13 9780742567405
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages384
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