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| Product ID: | 9781913538620 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | Five Rings and One Star |
| Subtitle: | From Bergen-Belsen to Munich '72: The Story of Shaul Ladany |
| Authors: | Author: Andrea Schiavon |
| Page Count: | 192 |
| Subjects: | Biography: sport, Biography: sport, European history, History, Olympic and Paralympic games, History of sport, Track and field sports, athletics, European history, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, Olympic & Paralympic games, History of sport, Track & field sports, athletics, Germany, Israel, c 1970 to c 1980 |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating Andrea Schiavon tells the extraordinary story of Israeli race-walker Shaul Ladany, who not only survived the Munich massace in 1972, but also the the darkest period in twentieth century history, having been interred as a child the Nazi concentration camp Bergen-Belsen. This is an astonishing, touching and epic biography. 5 September, 1972. 4.30 a.m. The Munich Olympic Village. Black September, a group of Palestinian terrorists, break into the Israeli team''s apartments. It is the beginning of the most tragic event in Olympic history and, after twenty hours, the day will end in a massacre, with the deaths of eleven Israelis, five Palestinians and a German policeman.This is the story of the race-walker Shaul Ladany: a survivor. But more than just a member of the Israeli team from those terrible events in Munich, Ladany was a survivor of the darkest period in twentieth century history, having been interred as a child at the Nazi concentration camp at Bergen-Belsen, the camp where Anne Frank died. For the second time in his life, Ladany has survived history.Ladany, the world record holder in the fifty-mile walk and a professor of industrial engineering, is one of Israel’s most successful athletes, having won dozens of national championships and competed at both the 1968 and 1972 Olympics; he was a student at Columbia University in New York, a soldier in the Six Days War and the Yom Kippur War. From Eichmann to Sharon, from Bikila to All Blacks, from Nixon to Thatcher: they are all a part of Ladany’s walk through the twentieth century. Award-winning author and journalist Andrea Schiavon tells Ladany''s extraordinary life and, walking with him, chronicles a whole century of events in this astonishing, touching and epic biography. |
| Imprint Name: | Polaris Publishing Limited |
| Publisher Name: | Polaris Publishing Limited |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2021-10-07 |
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