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Dynamo: Defending the Honour of Kiev
By (author) Andy Dougan
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In 1942, at the centre point of World War II, an extraordinary event took place not on the battlefield but in a municipal stadium in Kiev. This is the true story of courage, team loyalty and fortitude in the face of the most brutal oppression the world had ever seen. When Hitler initiated Operation Barbarossa in June 1941, he caught the Soviet Union completely by surprise. At breathtaking speed his armies swept East, slaughtering the ill-prepared Soviet forces. His greatest military gains of the entire war were made in a few short months, and the largest single country that he conquered was the Ukraine, roughly the size of France. Ukraine's capital, Kiev, was circled, assaulted and overrun, and among the city's defenders who were captured and incarcerated were many of the members of the sparkling 1939 Dynamo Kiev football team, argaubly the best in Europe before the war. Captured Kiev was a starving city whose population were deported in vast numbers as slave labour. However one man was determined to save not just the surviving players from the Dynamo side but other athletes as well. He offered them work, shelter and, most valuably, bread, as workers in his bakery.
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Publisher | HarperCollins Publishers
Published date | 4 Mar 2002
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Format | Paperback / softback
Pages | 256
Dimensions | 198 x 129 x 14mm (L x W x H)
Weight | 188g
ISBN | 978-1-8411-5319-3
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BISAC | history / europe / general
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