Reviews
"Few human enterprises blend light and darkness quite so much as the Olympics, where international cooperation and nationalistic fervor do battle in a five-ring circus. The 1984 Winter Games in Sarajevo were a profoundly double-edged spectacle. The lively writing of Jason Vuic re-lights the torch for all of us in a colorful remembrance of the best and the worst of what the Olympics can be."--Marty Dobrow, author of Knocking on Heaven's Door: Six Minor Leaguers in Search of the Baseball Dream"An impressively researched and deftly narrated tale of an unexpectedly delightful Winter Games whose legacy survives the dark, destructive days that followed. The definitive account of Sarajevo 1984."--John Powers, Boston Globe"Whenever I heard the word 'Sarajevo,' I thought sadly of the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand (1914) and the Siege of Sarajevo (1992-1996). Now, thanks to Jason Vuic's brilliantly conceived and executed history, I think also of Sarajevo's happier days as the place where, in 1984, Jayne Torvill, Christopher Dean, and Katarina Witt skated to Olympic glory."--Allen Guttmann, author of The Olympics: A History of the Modern Games, "Few human enterprises blend light and darkness quite so much as the Olympics, where international cooperation and nationalistic fervor do battle in a five-ring circus. The 1984 Winter Games in Sarajevo were a profoundly double-edged spectacle. The lively writing of Jason Vuic re-lights the torch for all of us in a colorful remembrance of the best and the worst of what the Olympics can be."--Marty Dobrow, author of Knocking on Heaven's Door: Six Minor Leaguers in Search of the Baseball Dream "An impressively researched and deftly narrated tale of an unexpectedly delightful Winter Games whose legacy survives the dark, destructive days that followed. The definitive account of Sarajevo 1984."--John Powers, Boston Globe "Whenever I heard the word 'Sarajevo,' I thought sadly of the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand (1914) and the Siege of Sarajevo (1992-1996). Now, thanks to Jason Vuic's brilliantly conceived and executed history, I think also of Sarajevo's happier days as the place where, in 1984, Jayne Torvill, Christopher Dean, and Katarina Witt skated to Olympic glory."--Allen Guttmann, author of The Olympics: A History of the Modern Games, Whenever I heard the word 'Sarajevo,' I thought sadly of the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand (1914) and the Siege of Sarajevo (1992--1996). Now, thanks to Jason Vuic's brilliantly conceived and executed history, I think also of Sarajevo's happier days as the place where, in 1984, Jayne Torvill, Christopher Dean, and Katarina Witt skated to Olympic glory.
