United, Forgotten, Lost, Babes, victims, Manchester, Munich

The Lost Babes: Manchester United and the Forgotten Victims of Munich

A moving story of how a legendary football team was lost to tragedy -- and how this disaster irrevocably altered the lives of the survivors and the bereaved families, and ultimately brought shame on the biggest football club in the world. The Manchester United team Matt Busby had built in the fifties from the club's successful youth policy seemed destined to dominate football for many years. Such was the power of the 'Busby Babes' that they seemed invincible. The average age of the side which won the Championship in 1955-56 was just 22, the youngest ever to achieve such a feat. A year later, when they were Champions again, nothing, it seemed, would prevent this gifted young team from reigning for the next decade. But then came 6 February 1958, the day that eight Manchester United players died on a German airfield in the 'Munich Air Disaster' -- a date to be forever etched in the annals of sporting tragedy. Duncan Edwards, Eddie Colman, Tommy Taylor, Roger Byrne!the names were already enshrined in legend before the air crash, but Munich in many ways earned them immortality. They have never grown old. Jeff Connor traces the rise of the greatest Manchester United side of all time, alongside a vibrant portrait of England in the 1950s, but he also paints a dark picture of a club that enriched itself on the myth of Munich while neglecting the families of the dead and the surviving players. The repercussions and the toll the disaster took on so many linger to the present day. Drawing on extensive interviews with the Munich victims and players of that era, The Lost Babes is the definitive account of British football's golden age, a poignant story of the protracted effects of loss and a remorseless dissection of the how the richest football club in the world turned its back on its own players and their families.









List Price: $ 15.95



Price: $ 3.46

Other posts like this, by keyword:

United:

Non Fiction Books blog ...
Animals Books blog ...
Golf Books blog ...
Food and Wine Books ...
Relationships Books blog ...
Essays Books blog ...
Business and Finance Books ...
CD and MP3 Books ...
Management Books ...
Eldercare Books ...
Forgotten:

Single Women Books ...
Weddings Books blog ...
Sons of Gruumsh (Dungeons & Dragons d20 3.5 Fantasy Roleplaying, Forgotten Realms 4th-Level Adventure ...
Not Forgotten: From the secret files of science, politics, occult and religion ...
Forgotten television ...
Lost:

Mathematics Books blog ...
Womens Fiction Books ...
Nonfiction Books ...
Diet Books blog ...
Contemporary Books blog ...
Current Events Books ...
Science Fiction Books blog ...
Researchers claim discovery of lost city of Atlantis, conveniently located in southern Spain ...
Lost Christianity ...
The Art Detective: Fakes, Frauds, and Finds and the Search for Lost Treasures ...
Babes:

victims:

Manchester:

Essays Books blog ...
The Official Illustrated History of Manchester United: The Full Story and Complete Record 1878-2008 ...
Munich:

Cartooning Books ...