Triumph: The Untold Story of Jesse Owens And Hitler's Olympics

Triumph: The Untold Story of Jesse Owens And Hitler's Olympics

In 1936, against a backdrop of swastikas flying and storm troopers goose-stepping, an African-American son of sharecroppers won a staggering four Olympic gold medals and single-handedly crushed Hitler…

If you like book Triumph: The Untold Story of Jesse Owens And Hitler's Olympics here is the list of books you may also like

Buy this book on Amazon

Similar books (20)

The Perfect Mile: Three Athletes, One Goal, and Less Than Four Minutes to Achieve It

There was a time when running the mile in four minutes was believed to be beyond the limits of human foot speed, and in all of sport it was the elusive holy grail. In 1952, after suffering defeat at t…
Buy this book on Amazon
The Envoy: The Epic Rescue of the Last Jews of Europe in the Desperate Closing Months of World War II

Buy this book on Amazon
The Aye-Aye and I

Buy this book on Amazon
Countdown 1960: The Behind-the-Scenes Story of the 312 Days that Changed America's Politics Forever

A riveting new work and fresh take on the lead-up to the presidential election of 1960, drawing timely parallels to the choice Americans face in 2024

It’s January 2, 1960: the day that Massachusetts Se…
Buy this book on Amazon
Baa Baa Black Sheep

The World War II air war in the Pacific needed tough men like Colonel Pappy Boyington and his Black Sheep Squadron. The legendary Marine Corps officer and his bunch of misfits, outcasts, and daredevil…
Buy this book on Amazon
Theodore Rex

Theodore Roosevelt and his two-term presidency (1901-9) deserve a king-size, seize-the-man biography - and Edmund Morris has provided one. "TR" typifies the "can do" American; his famous maxim, of cou…
Buy this book on Amazon
The Last of the President's Men

A new work of narrative nonfiction from bestselling author Bob Woodward.

Bob Woodward exposes one of the final pieces of the Richard Nixon puzzle in his new book The Last of the President’s Men. Woodwa…
Buy this book on Amazon
Games of Deception: The True Story of the First U.S. Olympic Basketball Team at the 1936 Olympics in Hitler's Germany

Buy this book on Amazon
Running with the Buffaloes: A Season Inside with Mark Wetmore, Adam Goucher, and the University of Colorado Men's Cross-Country Team

In RUNNING WITH THE BUFFALOES, writer Chris Lear follows the University of Colorado cross-country team through an unforgettable NCAA season. Allowed unparalleled access to team practices, private mome…
Buy this book on Amazon
The Greatest Summer in Baseball History: How the '73 Season Changed Us Forever

"The vivid story of a young Reggie Jackson on Charlie Finley's A's and the veteran Willie Mays on Yogi's Mets, both destined for the '73 series." —Library Journal

A rousing chronicle of one of the most…
Buy this book on Amazon
The Last Folk Hero: The Life and Myth of Bo Jackson

By the New York Times bestselling author of Showtime—the source for HBO’s Winning Time—the definitive biography of mythic multi-sport star Bo Jackson.

From the mid-1980s into the early 1990s, the great…
Buy this book on Amazon
White Lies: The Double Life of Walter F. White and America's Darkest Secret

Buy this book on Amazon
Born to Run 2: The Ultimate Training Guide

Born to Run 's Chris McDougall and long-time running coach Eric Orton show us how to join the global barefoot running movement and explore the world on our own two feet.

Born to Run 2: The Ultimate Tra…
Buy this book on Amazon
Jim Bridger: Trailblazer of the American West

Even among iconic frontiersmen like John C. Frémont, Kit Carson, and Jedediah Smith, Jim Bridger stands out. A mountain man of the American West, straddling the fur trade era and the age of exploratio…
Buy this book on Amazon
The Last Manager: How Earl Weaver Tricked, Tormented, and Reinvented Baseball

Buy this book on Amazon
The Last Stand of Fox Company: A True Story of U.S. Marines in Combat

November 1950, the Korean Peninsula: After General MacArthur ignores Mao’s warnings and pushes his UN forces deep into North Korea, his 10,000 First Division Marines find themselves surrounded and hop…
Buy this book on Amazon
The Cross of Lead (Crispin, #1)

"Asta's Son" is all he's ever been called. The lack of a name is appropriate, because he and his mother are but poor peasants in 14th century medieval England. But this thirteen-year-old boy who thoug…
Buy this book on Amazon
The Five Silent Years of Corrie ten Boom

Pam Roswell Moore had her doubts when she interviewed to be companion of the much-loved author Corrie ten Boom. Corrie's best-selling book The Hiding Place, which recounted how she and her family had …
Buy this book on Amazon
Thundermouth: Memoirs of a Broad Street Bully and NHL Lifer

Buy this book on Amazon
I Will Bear Witness 1942-45 A Diary of the Nazi Years

Buy this book on Amazon