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©2021
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xx, 181 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm
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Introduction -- 1. Hitler and Boxing -- 2. Men of Unsurpassed Evil -- 3. The Biggest Little Champ: Victor Perez -- 4. The Miracle of Life in a Pair of Fists -- 5. 200 to 1 -- 6. Sinto into the Ring -- 7. Harry Haft: Contender -- 8. Run for Your Life -- 9. Vengeance is Mine -- 10. The Nuremberg Trials -- 11. German Boxing: before, during, and after the War -- 12. Anti-Semitism in Germany and the United States
"This book shares the remarkable stories of boxers who had to fight for their lives while incarcerated in Nazi concentration camps. Alongside their stories are accounts of prisoners who resisted their captors and escaped the camps and those who sought revenge against the Nazis, creating a well-rounded portrait of those who fought against Nazi rule"--