Nazi Games

Informationen zum Autor David Clay Large is a professor at the Fromm Institute, University of San Francisco, and a Senior Fellow at the Institute of European Studies, U.C. Berkeley. A specialist on the history of Modern Europe, especially Germany and Austria, Large is the author of ten books including Berlin , Where Ghosts Walked: Munich’s Road to the Third Reich , and Nazi Games . Klappentext The Olympic festival was a crucial part of the Nazi regime's mobilization of power. Nazi Games offers a superb blend of history and sport. The narrative includes a stirring account of the international effort to boycott the games, derailed finally by the American Olympic Committee and the determination of its head, Avery Brundage, to participate. Nazi Games also recounts the dazzling athletic feats of these Olympics, including Jesse Owens's four gold-medal performances and the marathon victory of Korean runner Kitei Son, the Rising Sun of imperial Japan on his bib. Zusammenfassung Athletics and politics collide in a critical event for Nazi Germany and the contemporary world.

Product details

• Authors: David Large, David Clay Large, David Clay (Montana State University) Large, Large David Clay
• Publisher: Norton and Co Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 29.05.2007
• EAN: 9780393058840
• ISBN: 978-0-393-05884-0
• Dimensions: 165 mm x 240 mm x 35 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book; HISTORY / Europe / Germany, European History, Germany, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, SPORTS & RECREATION / Olympics & Paralympics, c 1919 to c 1939 (Inter-war period), c 1918 to c 1939 (Inter-war period), Olympic & Paralympic games, Olympic and Paralympic games