What do you do when the sport that has been your lifeline to physical and mental well-being starts to slip away from you? Richard Askwith, a life-long running enthusiast, was sunk in mid-life despair. Plagued by injuries and demoralised by failing strength and speed, he was on th...
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Czechoslovakia, October 1937. Europe's youngest democracy is on its knees. Millions are mourning the death of the nation's founding father, the saintly Tomas Masaryk. Across the border, the Third Reich is menacing--and plotting to invade. In the Czechoslovak heartlands, vast crow...
A British sports journalist tells the story of a Czech countess who defied the Nazis. In 1937, Lata Brandisová competed in a legendary horse race against riders from the Third Reich, winning glory for her country. But she lost everything when Nazi--and later Communist--regimes s...