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David Clay Large - Nazi Games - 9780393058840 - V9780393058840
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Nazi Games

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Description for Nazi Games Hardcover. Athletics and politics collide in a critical event for Nazi Germany and the contemporary world. Num Pages: 416 pages, 25 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JJG; HBJD; HBLW; WSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 244 x 165 x 35. Weight in Grams: 730.
The torch relay—that staple of Olympic pageantry—first opened the summer games in 1936 in Berlin. Proposed by the Nazi Propaganda Ministry, the relay was to carry the symbolism of a new Germany across its route through southeastern and central Europe. Soon after the Wehrmacht would march in jackboots over the same terrain.

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 ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
WW Norton & Co United States
Number of pages
416
Condition
New
Number of Pages
424
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780393058840
SKU
V9780393058840
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About David Clay Large
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.

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