Get Ready for the Paris Olympics!

Get Ready for the Paris Olympics! These books will give you a history of the Olympic games, individual and team achievement, and the history of Paris, France.

Updated May 23, 2024
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Today we die a little! : the inimitable Emil Zátopek, the greatest Olympic runner of all time
Askwith, Richard
Paper Book

796.42 Z19ya 2016

The boys in the boat : nine Americans and their epic quest for gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics
Brown, Daniel
Paper Book
Now a major motion picture, directed by George Clooney. From the Great Depression to Nazi Germany, The Boys in the Boat is the astonishing true story of the 1936 American men's eight rowing team on their quest for Olympic gold. 'It is impossible not to get...

797.123 Brown 2013

Coming up for air
Daley, Tom
Paper Book
Longlisted for Autobiography of the Year, Sports Book Awards 2022 The Instant Sunday Times Bestseller 'Honest and moving - everything a memoir should be' The Sun 'An illuminating look at what it takes to be an Olympian...
797.24 Daley Daley 2022
The games : a global history of the Olympics
Goldblatt, David
Paper Book
From the author of The Game of Our Lives, winner of the William Hill Sports Book of the Year 2015David Goldblatt writes about sports 'with the expansive eye of a social and cultural critic' (Wall Street Journal). In The Games he delivers a magisterial history of the biggest and most beloved sporting...
796.4809 G564 2016
France : an adventure history
Robb, Graham
Paper Book
'Packed full of discoveries' Sunday Times'A quirky, amused, erudite homage to France... ambitious and original' Times__________France: An Adventure History is a profoundly original and endlessly entertaining history of France, from the first century BC to the present day, based on countless new...

944 Robb 2022


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