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The Shattered Peloton - The Devastating Impact of World War I on the Tour de France (Paperback)
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The Shattered Peloton - The Devastating Impact of World War I on the Tour de France (Paperback)
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List price R396
Loot Price R334
Discovery Miles 3 340
You Save R62 (16%)
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A fascinating, mind-boggling account of young athletes in their
prime destroyed in the hell of war. A mesmerizing view of cycling
in its golden age, and the darkness that followed.
On June 28, 1914, one hundred and forty-five riders lined up in a
suburb of Paris at 3 a.m. to start the first stage of the Tour de
France. The race, which had been founded just a decade earlier, had
grown to become the biggest bicycle race in the world. The riders
did not know it at the time, but as they raced, an event was taking
place on the opposite side of Europe which would change all of
their lives forever: Gavrilo Princip assassinated Archduke Franz
Ferdinand of Austria, triggering World War I.
While racing went on in France, a diplomatic crisis had started
that would try but fail to avert war. Shortly after the finish of
the race, France mobilized its troops and went to war with Germany.
The organizer of the Tour de France, Henri Desgrange, despite being
fifty years old, enrolled in the army shortly afterwards and
encouraged the cyclists to do the same.
The war would see over 16 million soldiers and civilians die. Many
of the riders from that Tour de France did not return, and three
previous winners of the race would be among those killed in action.
The Shattered Peloton tells the story of that Tour de France and
what happened to the top cyclists of the day during the course of
the war.
A brilliant, disturbing, important book for anyone with an interest
in cycling or military history.
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