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The boxer's story : fighting for my life in the Nazi camps, Nathan Shapow, with Bob Harris
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- Summary
- Once in a while there comes along a story so powerful and so emotive that it makes you re-think your own values. This is the story of Nathan Shapow, a young Latvian, born in Riga, with nothing more on his mind than becoming a world-renowned boxer. However, the sound of jackboots marching across Europe and the systematic extermination of the Jews put paid to his boxing dreams. He was to fight a different sort of fight, one for survival. The prize? His life. Seeing his youth disappear in the squalor of the ghettos and the horror of the camps, Nathan fell back on his previous existence to sustain him. The years of training, the running, the speed work, the three-round amateur fights in the gym, the street fights in Riga and the sheer competitive nature he developed saved him on more than one occasion, especially when he was forced to box for his life against a top German fighter in a concentration camp. THE BOXER'S STORY is an extraordinary and powerful true story that reads like a thriller. It will deeply affect everyone who reads it
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- x, 246 pages
- Contents
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- Murder in the Ghetto
- A Brief Childhood
- The Soviet Occupation
- The Riga Ghetto
- Ducking, Bobbing and Weaving
- The Empty Grave
- Changing Weight
- The Freedom Fighters
- The Life and Death of Herr Harr
- Spilve
- The Cruise to Hell (Stutthof)
- Magdeburg and Liberation
- The Path to Palestine
- Hela --Blood in the Sand
- Leaving the Front
- The New World
- Isbn
- 9781849541909
- Label
- The boxer's story : fighting for my life in the Nazi camps
- Title
- The boxer's story
- Title remainder
- fighting for my life in the Nazi camps
- Statement of responsibility
- Nathan Shapow, with Bob Harris
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- Once in a while there comes along a story so powerful and so emotive that it makes you re-think your own values. This is the story of Nathan Shapow, a young Latvian, born in Riga, with nothing more on his mind than becoming a world-renowned boxer. However, the sound of jackboots marching across Europe and the systematic extermination of the Jews put paid to his boxing dreams. He was to fight a different sort of fight, one for survival. The prize? His life. Seeing his youth disappear in the squalor of the ghettos and the horror of the camps, Nathan fell back on his previous existence to sustain him. The years of training, the running, the speed work, the three-round amateur fights in the gym, the street fights in Riga and the sheer competitive nature he developed saved him on more than one occasion, especially when he was forced to box for his life against a top German fighter in a concentration camp. THE BOXER'S STORY is an extraordinary and powerful true story that reads like a thriller. It will deeply affect everyone who reads it
- Biography type
- autobiography
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1921-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Shapow, Nathan
- Dewey number
- 940.547243092
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- D805.A2
- LC item number
- S52 2012
- Literary form
- non fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorDate
- 1944-
- http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorName
- Harris, Bob
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
-
- Shapow, Nathan
- World War, 1939-1945
- World War, 1939-1945
- Prisoners of war
- China
- Label
- The boxer's story : fighting for my life in the Nazi camps, Nathan Shapow, with Bob Harris
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Murder in the Ghetto -- A Brief Childhood -- The Soviet Occupation -- The Riga Ghetto -- Ducking, Bobbing and Weaving -- The Empty Grave -- Changing Weight -- The Freedom Fighters -- The Life and Death of Herr Harr -- Spilve -- The Cruise to Hell (Stutthof) -- Magdeburg and Liberation -- The Path to Palestine -- Hela --Blood in the Sand -- Leaving the Front -- The New World
- Dimensions
- 23 cm
- Extent
- x, 246 pages
- Isbn
- 9781849541909
- Isbn Type
- (hbk.)
- Lccn
- 2012451236
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
-
- ocn811123529
- (OCoLC)811123529
- Label
- The boxer's story : fighting for my life in the Nazi camps, Nathan Shapow, with Bob Harris
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Murder in the Ghetto -- A Brief Childhood -- The Soviet Occupation -- The Riga Ghetto -- Ducking, Bobbing and Weaving -- The Empty Grave -- Changing Weight -- The Freedom Fighters -- The Life and Death of Herr Harr -- Spilve -- The Cruise to Hell (Stutthof) -- Magdeburg and Liberation -- The Path to Palestine -- Hela --Blood in the Sand -- Leaving the Front -- The New World
- Dimensions
- 23 cm
- Extent
- x, 246 pages
- Isbn
- 9781849541909
- Isbn Type
- (hbk.)
- Lccn
- 2012451236
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
-
- ocn811123529
- (OCoLC)811123529
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