@article{439444,
      recid = {439444},
      author = {Large, David Clay.},
      title = {Munich 1972 tragedy, terror, and triumph at the Olympic  Games / [electronic resource] :},
      publisher = {Rowman & Littlefield Publishers,},
      address = {Lanham, Md. :},
      pages = {1 online resource (x, 372 p., [12] p. of plates) :},
      year = {2012},
      abstract = {"Set against the backdrop of the turbulent late 1960s and  early 1970s, this compelling book offers the first  comprehensive narrative history of the 1972 Munich Olympic  Games, notorious for the hostage taking by Palestinian  terrorists of Jewish athletes and their tragic deaths after  a botched rescue mission by German police. Drawing on a  wealth of contemporaneous sources, including recently  opened files in the German and Olympic archives, eminent  historian David Clay Large offers a comprehensive  exploration of the 1972 festival. He interweaves the  political drama surrounding the Games with the athletic  spectacle in the arena of play, itself hardly free of  political controversy. Writing with flair and an eye for  telling detail, Large brings to life the stories of the  indelible characters who epitomized the Games, ranging from  the city itself to the visionaries who brought the Games to  Munich against all odds to the athletes, obscure and famous  alike. With the Olympic movement in constant danger of  terrorist disruption, and with the fortieth anniversary of  the 1972 tragedy upon us in 2012, the Munich story is more  timely than ever"--Provided by publisher.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/439444},
}