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Munich 1972 - Tragedy, Terror, and Triumph at the Olympic Games (Hardcover, New)
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Munich 1972 - Tragedy, Terror, and Triumph at the Olympic Games (Hardcover, New)
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Munich 1972 tells the compelling story of the most controversial of
all modern Olympiads within the turbulent context of simmering
global tensions: the ongoing Cold War, political posturing between
the two Germanys, seemingly endless warfare in Indochina, lingering
recriminations surrounding decolonization in Africa, and, of
course, the cauldron of religious and ethnic hatred known
euphemistically as the Middle East Conflict. It was, of course,
this last conflict that spilled over so tragically into the Munich
festival, which will forever be remembered for the murder of eleven
Israeli Olympians by Palestinian terrorists: a grisly episode that
ruined a much-anticipated coming-out party for newly democratic
West Germany and for new Munich itself, the erstwhile capital of
Hitler's Nazi movement. What began as a putatively merry
celebration of peaceful play and beery bonhomie turned into a
tragic milestone in the signature horror of our times: political
and religious terror.Crucial as the Munich Massacre is to the story
of the '72 Games, however, it is by no means the only story. There
was plenty of high drama in the athletic competitions as well,
which were themselves hardly free of unsportsmanlike acrimony.
Controversies over biased judging, commercialization, political
posturing, and (above all) doping helped to make this Olympic
festival very much a mirror of its contentious times.Drawing on a
wealth of contemporaneous sources, including recently opened files
in the German and Olympic archives, eminent historian David Clay
Large offers a comprehensive exploration of the 1972 festival. He
interweaves the political drama surrounding the Games with the
athletic spectacle in the arena of play, itself hardly free of
political controversy. Writing with flair and an eye for telling
detail, Large brings to life the stories of the indelible
characters who epitomized the Games, ranging from the city itself
to the visionaries who brought the Games to Munich against all odds
to the athletes, obscure and famous alike. With the Olympic
movement in constant danger of terrorist disruption, and with the
fortieth anniversary of the 1972 tragedy upon us in 2012, the
Munich story is more timely than ever.
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