Fight of the Century (eBook)

Joe Louis vs. Max Schmeling

Patrick Myler (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2011
272 Seiten
Arcade Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-62872-263-5 (ISBN)

Infos

The definitive book (The Ring) on one of the greatest sports events of the twentieth century, the heavyweight championship bout between Americas Brown Bomber, Joe Louis, and Germanys Max Schmeling.More than the world heavyweight championship was at stake when Joe Louis fought Max Schmeling on June 22, 1938. In a world on the brink of war, the fight was depicted as a contest between nations, races, and political ideologies, the symbol of a much vaster struggle. Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels boasted that the Aryan Schmeling would crush his inferior black opponent. President Roosevelt told Louis, his guest at the White House, that America needs muscles like yours to beat Germany. For Louis, this was also his chance to avenge the only loss in his brilliant careerby a knockoutto the same Max Schmeling two years earlier.Recreating the drama of their momentous bout, the author traces the lives of both fighters before and after the fight, including Schmelings efforts in Nazi Germany to protect Jewish friends and the two boxers surprising friendship in the postwar years. In Fight of the Century Myler tells the story of two decent men, drawn together by boxing and divided by the cruel demands of competing nations.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 21.12.2011
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport ► Kampfsport / Selbstverteidigung
• Schlagworte: 1970s • Almanac • America • aryan • boasted • books on 1970s • books on almanacs • books on aryans • books on bouts • books on boxing workouts • books on championships • books on cocas • books on colas • books on distributors • books on dvds • books on fast-forwards • books on fighters • books on fitnesses • books on footworks • books on manuals • books on nations • books on nazisms • books on opponents • books on professions • books on propagandas • books on retaliations • books on schmelings • books on second-sights • books on shaolins • books on spaldings books on champions • books on tennesseans • Bouts • boxers’ • boxing workout • Champions • Championship • coca • Cola • compete • competing • defected • demeaning • Digest • digesting books • dispensed • distributor • DVD • fast-forward • Fighters • Fitness • footwork • Germany • guildenstern • heavyweight • Instructional • joe lewis • Joe Louis • largess • Manual • momentous • nations • Nazism • opponent • Profession • Propaganda • Proxy • recreating • retaliation • rosencrantz • saddled • Schmeling • second-sight • Shaolin • Spalding • Tackle • Tackling • tennessean • Thai • vaster
• ISBN-10: 1-62872-263-0 / 1628722630
• ISBN-13: 978-1-62872-263-5 / 9781628722635