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Unbreakable

Unbreakable

by Richard Askwith
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date: 07/03/2019
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Discover a story that defies belief: National Velvet meets Downton Abbey with a splash of Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa's The Leopard.


* WINNER OF THE 2020 TELEGRAPH SPORTS BOOK AWARDS BIOGRAPHY OF THE YEAR *


* LONGLISTED FOR THE WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR *


Czechoslovakia, October 1937. Vast crowds have gathered to watch the Grand Pardubice steeplechase, Europe's most blood-curdling sporting test of manhood. With war looming, the race has a brutal political significance. The Nazis have sent the SS's all-conquering paramilitary horsemen to crush - yet again - the 'subhuman Slavs'. But Lata Brandisova, a silver-haired countess on a little golden mare, has other ideas...


'Heart-stopping reading' Clover Stroud, Daily Telegraph

ISBN:
9781473555525
9781473555525
Category:
Biography: sport
Format:
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date:
07-03-2019
Language:
English
Publisher:
Random House
Richard Askwith

Richard Askwith has been a journalist for more than 35 years. He has written five previous books, including an evocative biography of Emil Zátopek, Today We Die A Little, which was shortlisted in the Cross Sports Book Awards. This marked his first foray into the world of Czechoslovak sport.

His first book, Feet in the Clouds, won Best New Writer at the British Sports Book Awards and the Bill Rollinson Prize for Landscape and Tradition. It was also shortlisted for the William Hill and Boardman Tasker prizes. His 2014 book, Running Free, was shortlisted for the Thwaites-Wainwright Prize.

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