Non-fiction audio: Olympic Wonders
I've listened to a couple of books lately that were about the Olympics in the 1920s and 30s, so I'll comment on both of them here. The first was: Title: Fire on the Track: Betty Robinson and the Triumph of the Early Olympic Women Author: Roseanne Montillo Publisher: Random House Audio, 2017. Original published by Crown Publishing Group, 2017. 304 pages. Source: Library digital resources Publisher's Summary: When Betty Robinson assumed the starting position at the 1928 Olympic Games in Amsterdam, she was participating in what was only her fourth-ever organized track meet. She crossed the finish line as a gold medalist and the fastest woman in the world. This improbable athletic phenom was an ordinary high school student, discovered running for a train in rural Illinois mere months before her Olympic debut. Amsterdam made her a star. But at the top of her game, her career (and life) almost came to a tragic end when a plane she and her cousin were piloting crashed. ...