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Today we die a little! : the inimitable Emil Zátopek, the greatest Olympic runner of all time / Richard Askwith.
Van Pelt Library GV1061.15.Z38 A85 2016
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Askwith, Richard, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Zátopek, Emil, 1922-2000.
- Zátopek, Emil.
- Track and field athletes--Czechoslovakia--Biography.
- Track and field athletes.
- Long-distance runners--Czechoslovakia--Biography.
- Long-distance runners.
- Olympic athletes--Biography.
- Olympic athletes.
- Czechoslovakia.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xvii, 457 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Nation Books, [2016]
- Summary:
- "Based on extensive research in the Czech Republic, interviews with people across the world who knew him, and unprecedented cooperation from his widow ... journalist Richard Askwith's book breathes new life into the man and the myth, uncovering a glorious age of athletics and an epoch-defining time in world history"--Dust jacket flap.
- Contents:
- 'Za-to-pek! Zá-to-pek!'
- The Kopřivnice kid
- Shoemaking
- The soldier
- Beginnings
- The lights come on again
- Love and death
- The Czech locomotive
- Mission: invincible
- Fairy-tale Pete
- The longest day
- the people's champion
- 'Today we die a little'
- The ambassador
- Spring fever
- Disgrace
- Exile
- In the drawer
- 'Say it ain't so, Emil'
- The last lap.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781568585499
- 1568585497
- OCLC:
- 928613603
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