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Massacre in Munich: How Terrorists Changed the Olympics and the World

By Don Nardo

Book information

Publisher
Capstone
Year
2016
ISBN
9780756554125, 9780756552923, 9780756552961, 9780756553005
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
15 MB (16163680 bytes)
Series
Captured History Sports
Pages
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Time added
2023-01-20 11:10:12
History; Juvenile Nonfiction; Photography; Sociolo

Description

An attack at the 1972 Munich Olympic Games would produce one of the defining images of international terrorism. The chilling photo of a hooded man peering from a balcony in the Olympic Village would be viewed worldwide as a horrific symbol of global terrorism. The man wearing a mask with cutout slits for his eyes was a member of the Palestinian terrorist group Black September. He and his fellow terrorists had seized 11 members of the Israeli Olympic delegation and were holding them hostage. They would kill them all as the tragedy unfolded. What had been dubbed the "happy Olympics" would be forever remembered as the Munich massacre. The Olympics would never the same.

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