{"product_id":"9781447210986","title":"The Boys In The Boat : An Epic Journey to the Heart of Hitler's Berlin","description":"\u003cp\u003e Author(s): Brown, Daniel James \u003cbr\u003e Binding: Paperback, \u003cbr\u003e Date of Publication: 02\/01\/2014,\u003cbr\u003e Pagination: 416 pages,\u003cbr\u003e ISBN13\\EAN\\SKU: 9781447210986,\u003cbr\u003e Description: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe inspiration for the major film of the same name directed by George Clooney, this is the bestselling story about a rowing team's quest for Olympic gold in Nazi Germany. 'A moving, enlightening and gripping tale' - Financial TimesCast aside by his family at an early age, abandoned and left to fend for himself in the woods of Washington State, young Joe Rantz turns to rowing as a way of escaping his past.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat follows is an extraordinary journey, as Joe and eight other working-class boys exchange the sweat and dust of life in 1930s America for the promise of glory at the heart of Hitler’s Berlin. Stroke by stroke, a remarkable young man strives to regain his shattered self-regard, to dare again to trust in others – and to find his way back home.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTold against the backdrop of the Great Depression, Daniel James Brown's The Boys in the Boat is narrative non-fiction of the first order; a personal story full of lyricism and unexpected beauty that rises above the grand sweep of history, and captures instead the purest essence of what it means to be alive.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘I really can't rave enough about this book . . . I read the last fifty pages with white knuckles, and the last twenty-five with tears in my eyes’ – David Laskin, author of The Children's Blizzard and The Long Way Home.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Griffin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42264268275756,"sku":"9781447210986","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0379\/1365\/7388\/products\/9781447210986.jpg?v=1702393040","url":"https:\/\/www.griffinbooksonline.info\/products\/9781447210986","provider":"Griffin Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}