Tackling Hitler – the sportsmen and women who faced the Nazis

Tackling Hitler – the book

April 1, 2010 by Matt Horner

TACKLING HITLER, a new book of stories about sportsmen and sportswomen who faced the Nazis, is due to be published in 2012.

The book, written by Matthew Horner, will tell inspiring and remarkable tales of courage, espionage, and rebellion, and incredible stories of appeasement, collaboration and murder.

Read about:

• The England international football team who played their German and Italian rivals just months before war was declared – and performed Fascist salutes before both games.
• The professional baseball star who was recruited by the American secret service and sent on a mission to assassinate Germany’s leading atom bomb scientist.
• The ‘Death Match’; a soccer match between a Ukranian team and their German occupiers. Warned by the referee – a member of the SS –  that inflicting defeat on the Nazis may well result in the ultimate punishment, discover how the Ukranian team tackled the game.
• How The Berlin Olympics of 1936 were hijacked by Hitler and his Nazi propaganda machine – learn how the Nazi rise to power affected the lives of individual athletes and how the Nazis hoodwinked the Olympic Committee into accepting that the Olympic Spirit was being upheld.
• Max Schmeling and Joe Louis; two boxers playing out the ideological conflict of the ’30s – in the ring.
• And more…

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