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Cold War Games: Spies, Subterfuge and Secret Operations at the 1956 Olympic Games

Harry Blutstein

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Description:The 1956 Melbourne Olympic Games have become known as the ‘friendly games’, but East-West rivalry ensured that they were anything but friendly. From the bloody semi-final water polo match between the USSR and Hungary, to the athletes who defected to the West, sport and politics collided during the Cold War.Cold War Games shows vividly how the USSR and US exploited the Melbourne Olympic Games for propaganda, turning athletic fields, swimming pools and other sporting venues into battlefields in which each fought for supremacy.There were glimmers of peace and solidarity. Cold War Games also tells the love story between Czechoslovak discus thrower Olga Fikotová and American hammer thrower Hal Connolly, and their struggle to overcome Cold War politics to marry.Cold War Games is a lively, landmark book, with fresh information from ASIO files and newly discovered documents from archives in the USSR, US and Hungary, revealing secret operations in Melbourne, and showing just how pivotal the 1956 Olympic Games were for the great powers of the Cold War.'Courage, fear, intrigue, brutality, generosity, love, hate, romance, humour, triumph and tragedy: they're all here in this superbly crafted book about the intimate entanglement of politics and sport during the deepest freeze of the global cold war. A major contribution to the history of international sport and politics'. — Frank Bongiorno'Cold War Games is fast-paced, edgy and highly readable. Harry Blutstein crafts his gripping account with an impressive array of interviews, archival material and scholarship from across the globe. The result is a fascinating and accessible insight into a seminal moment in Olympic and Cold War history.' — Richard Mills, Lecturer in Modern European History, University of East Anglia'This is a tale that is long overdue. Mr Blutstein's well-researched history of the chicanery of the Soviets in Olympic competition is a compelling read.' — Jon Henricks, Melbourne 1956 and Rome 1960 Swimming Dual Gold MedallistWe have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Cold War Games: Spies, Subterfuge and Secret Operations at the 1956 Olympic Games. To get started finding Cold War Games: Spies, Subterfuge and Secret Operations at the 1956 Olympic Games, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 368

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: Bonnier Publishing Australia

Release: 2017

ISBN: 176040568X

Description: The 1956 Melbourne Olympic Games have become known as the ‘friendly games’, but East-West rivalry ensured that they were anything but friendly. From the bloody semi-final water polo match between the USSR and Hungary, to the athletes who defected to the West, sport and politics collided during the Cold War.Cold War Games shows vividly how the USSR and US exploited the Melbourne Olympic Games for propaganda, turning athletic fields, swimming pools and other sporting venues into battlefields in which each fought for supremacy.There were glimmers of peace and solidarity. Cold War Games also tells the love story between Czechoslovak discus thrower Olga Fikotová and American hammer thrower Hal Connolly, and their struggle to overcome Cold War politics to marry.Cold War Games is a lively, landmark book, with fresh information from ASIO files and newly discovered documents from archives in the USSR, US and Hungary, revealing secret operations in Melbourne, and showing just how pivotal the 1956 Olympic Games were for the great powers of the Cold War.'Courage, fear, intrigue, brutality, generosity, love, hate, romance, humour, triumph and tragedy: they're all here in this superbly crafted book about the intimate entanglement of politics and sport during the deepest freeze of the global cold war. A major contribution to the history of international sport and politics'. — Frank Bongiorno'Cold War Games is fast-paced, edgy and highly readable. Harry Blutstein crafts his gripping account with an impressive array of interviews, archival material and scholarship from across the globe. The result is a fascinating and accessible insight into a seminal moment in Olympic and Cold War history.' — Richard Mills, Lecturer in Modern European History, University of East Anglia'This is a tale that is long overdue. Mr Blutstein's well-researched history of the chicanery of the Soviets in Olympic competition is a compelling read.' — Jon Henricks, Melbourne 1956 and Rome 1960 Swimming Dual Gold MedallistWe have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Cold War Games: Spies, Subterfuge and Secret Operations at the 1956 Olympic Games. To get started finding Cold War Games: Spies, Subterfuge and Secret Operations at the 1956 Olympic Games, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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