Traces the life of Avery Brundage, his sixty-year association with the Olympics, and indicates his contributions to the modern Olympic movement

Presents a new account of the 1972 Munich Olympics massacre based on years of research, thousands of official documents and hundreds of interviews. Reveals for

"Michael Waters performs an Olympian act of storytelling, using the stories of these extraordinary athletes to explore in brilliant detail the struggle for unde

In his previous books Allen Guttmann has provided incisive perspectives on Avery Brundage's role in the Olympic movement and on the nature of modern sports. Now

The story of American baseball during World War II, both the professional players who left to join the war effort including Joe DiMaggio, Ted Williams, and Hank