Sprinting Through No Man's Land: Endurance, Tragedy, and Rebirth in the 1919 Tour de France by Dobkin, Adin

Sprinting Through No Man's Land: Endurance, Tragedy, and Rebirth in the 1919 Tour de France

The inspiring, heart-pumping true story of soldiers turned cyclists and the historic 1919 Tour de France that...
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Author: Adin Dobkin
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Sprinting Through No Man's Land: Endurance, Tragedy, and Rebirth in the 1919 Tour de France by Dobkin, Adin

Sprinting Through No Man's Land: Endurance, Tragedy, and Rebirth in the 1919 Tour de France

$65.93

Sprinting Through No Man's Land: Endurance, Tragedy, and Rebirth in the 1919 Tour de France

$65.93
Author: Adin Dobkin
Format: Hardcover
Language: English

The inspiring, heart-pumping true story of soldiers turned cyclists and the historic 1919 Tour de France that helped to restore a war-torn country and its people.

On June 29, 1919, one day after the Treaty of Versailles brought about the end of World War I, nearly seventy cyclists embarked on the thirteenth Tour de France. From Paris, the war-weary men rode down the western coast on a race that would trace the country's border, through seaside towns and mountains to the ghostly western front. Traversing a cratered postwar landscape, the cyclists faced near-impossible odds and the psychological scars of war. Most of the athletes had arrived straight from the front, where so many fellow countrymen had suffered or died. The cyclists' perseverance and tolerance for pain would be tested in a grueling, monthlong competition.

An inspiring true story of human endurance, Sprinting Through No Man's Land explores how the cyclists united a country that had been torn apart by unprecedented desolation and tragedy. It shows how devastated countrymen and women can come together to celebrate the adventure of a lifetime and discover renewed fortitude, purpose, and national identity in the streets of their towns.



Author: Adin Dobkin
Publisher: Little a
Published: 07/01/2021
Pages: 316
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.10lbs
Size: 8.35h x 5.83w x 1.34d
ISBN: 9781542018821


Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 05/03/2021

About the Author
Dobkin, Adin: -

Adin Dobkin is a writer and journalist whose work has appeared in the New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic, the Paris Review, and the Los Angeles Review of Books, among others. Born in Santa Barbara, California, Adin received his MFA from Columbia University. For more information about the author and his works, please visit www.adindobkin.com.

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