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Genre/Form: | History |
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Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Arnd Krüger; W J Murray |
ISBN: | 0252028155 9780252028151 |
OCLC Number: | 50251925 |
Description: | ix, 260 pages ; 25 cm. |
Contents: | Germany : the propaganda machine / Arnd Krüger -- United States of America : the crucial battle / Arnd Krüger -- Great Britain : the amateur tradition / Richard Holt -- France : liberty, equality, and the pursuit of fraternity / William Murray -- Italy : Mussolini's boys at Hitler's Olympics / Gigliola Gori -- Japan : the future in the past / Tetsuo Nakamura -- Finland : the promised land of Olympic sports / Leena Laine -- Sweden : business as usual / Lars-Olof Wilander -- Norway : Germany, the Nazis, and a small neighbor / Matti Goksjr -- Denmark : living with reality / Jrn Hansen -- Netherlands : in the shadow of big brother / André Swijtink -- Epilogue / Arnd Krüger. |
Series Title: | Sport and society. |
Responsibility: | edited by Arnd Krüger and William Murray. |
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"It's a pleasure to read the work of writers who really know their topic. This collection contains some masterful essays which impress the reader with their depth of information and their balanced judgments. There's real drama here and important questions to ask and answer."--Allen Guttmann, author of The Olympics: A History of the Modern Games Read more...

