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About this book
This is a tale of innocents abroad. Thirty-three athletes left Australia in May 1936 to compete in the Hitler Olympics in Berlin. Believing sporting competition was the best antidote to tyranny, they put their qualms on hold. Anything to be part of the greatest show on earth.
Dangerous Games drops us into a front row seat at the 100,000-capacity Olympic stadium to witness some of the finest sporting performances of all time—most famously the African American runner Jesse Owens, who eclipsed the best athletes the Nazis could pit against him in every event he entered. The Australians, with their antiquated training regimes and amateur ethos, valiantly confronted the intensely focused athletes of Germany, the United States and Japan. Behind the scenes was cut-throat wheeling and dealing, defiance of Hitler, and warm friendships among athletes. What they did and saw in Berlin that hot, rainy summer influenced all that came after until their dying days.
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20th Century HistoryTable of contents
- COVER PAGE
- PRAISE FOR DANGEROUS GAMES
- ABOUT THE AUTHOR
- OTHER BOOKS BY LARRY WRITER
- TITLE PAGE
- COPYRIGHT PAGE
- CONTENTS
- PROLOGUE: THE WATTLE AND THE SWASTIKA
- 1: BERLIN WINS THE GAMES
- 2: ON YOUR MARKS
- 3: THE CLASS OF '36
- 4: DARKNESS DESCENDING
- 5: AMATEUR HOUR
- 6: BOYCOTT BERLIN!
- 7: ALL AT SEA
- 8: INTO THE LAIR
- 9: BELLS, WHISTLES AND A GRAND ARENA
- 10: SETTLING IN
- 11: INNOCENTS ABROAD
- 12: OLYMPIC COUNTDOWN
- 13: THE OPENING CEREMONY
- 14: DAYS OF GRACE AND FURY
- 15: THE DYING FLAME
- 16: BEHIND THE MASK
- 17: SIFTING THE WRECKAGE
- 18: FINISH LINES
- EPILOGUE
- PICTURE SECTION
- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
- BIBLIOGRAPHY