Bidding for the 1968 Olympic Games: International Sport's Cold War Battle with NATO

by Heather L. Dichter

Book Overview

Winner of the 2022 Lord Aberdare Literary Prize from the British Society of Sports History
During the Cold War, political tensions associated with the division of Germany came to influence the world of competitive sport. In the 1950s, West Germany and its NATO allies refused to recognize the communist East German state and barred its national teams from sporting competitions. The construction of the Berlin Wall in 1961 further exacerbated...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 162534595X
• ISBN13: 9781625345950
• Release Date: October 2021
• Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.9" x 8.9"