Five Rings and One Star (eBook)

Andrea Schiavon (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2021
Birlinn (Verlag)
978-1-913538-63-7 (ISBN)

Infos

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.

Andrea Schiavon was born in Padua in 1974 and is a journalist for Tuttosport.

Autor

Andrea Schiavon was born in Padua in 1974 and is a journalist for Tuttosport. He won the Bancarella Sport Award in 2013 for Five Circles and One Star.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 7.10.2021
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Weitere Fachgebiete ► Sportwissenschaft
• Schlagworte: 1968 • 1972 • Adolf Eichamann • Andrea Schiavon • Anne Frank • Autobiography • award-winning • Bergen-Belsen • Bikila • Biography • birthday present • Black September • brothers • Christmas present • Concentration Camp • dads • fifty year olds • forty year olds • Gift • History • Holocaust • Israel • massacre • modern history • Munich • Munich 1972 • Munich 72 • Nixon • Non-fiction • Nuremberg Trials • Olympic • Olympic Games • Olympics • olympic village • Olympic walking • Palestine • race walker • Shaul Ladany • Six Days War • sport biography • Sports • stocking filler • Survivor • Thatcher • The Olympics • True stories • uncles • World Champion • World record • Yom Kippur • Yom Kippur War
• ISBN-10: 1-913538-63-X / 191353863X
• ISBN-13: 978-1-913538-63-7 / 9781913538637