The Greatest Comeback: From Genocide to Football Glory: The Story of Bela Guttmann (Bolchover David)(Paperback)

The Greatest Comeback: From Genocide to Football Glory: The Story of Bela Guttmann (Bolchover David)(Paperback)

Before Pep Guardiola and before Jos Mourinho, there was B la Guttmann: the first superstar football coach. Remarkably, Guttmann was also a Holocaust survivor. Having narrowly dodged death by hiding for months in an attic near Budapest as thousands of fellow Jews in the neighbourhood were dragged

Triumph of Henry Cecil - The Authorised Biography (Rushmer Tony)(Paperback / softback)

The inside story of how master trainer Henry Cecil achieved the greatest comeback ever seen in the sport of

Road to Valor: A True Story of WWII Italy, the Nazis, and the Cyclist Who Inspired a Nation (McConnon Aili)(Paperback)

The inspiring, against-the-odds story of Gino Bartali, the cyclist who made the greatest comeback in Tour de France history and secretly aided the Italian resistance during World War II Gino Bartali is best known as an Italian cycling legend who not only won the Tour de France twice but also holds

Punk Football: The Rise of Fan Ownership in English Football (Keoghan Jim)(Paperback)

'Punk Football' tells the story of how supporters have made the incredible journey from the terraces to the boardroom. Initially intrigued by the rise of AFC Wimbledon, the supporter-owned club set up after Wimbledon FC s relocation to Milton Keynes, Jim Keoghan was drawn into a world in which

Best Football Drills: The Drill Book for Winning Football Teams (Hess Dillon)(Paperback)

The glory of the gridiron is paid by the sweat of the practice field. No team wins football games without first winning their football practices.Featuring hundreds of pages of proven and effective football drills, the Best Football Drills book prepares players and coaches to practice like

Up Pohnpei - Leading the ultimate football underdogs to glory (Watson Paul)(Paperback / softback)

Tells the story of their quest to coach the team and eventually, organise an international fixture - Pohnpei's first since a 16-1 defeat many years ago. This book shows how the passion and determination of two young men can change the face of football - and the lives of total strangers - on the

Cross and the Switchblade - The Greatest Inspirational True Story of All Time (Wilkerson David)(Paperback / softback)

The inspirational true story of a country preacher and his mission to the streets of New York

The Age of Football - The Global Game in the Twenty-first Century (Goldblatt David)(Pevná vazba)

The critically acclaimed global story of football in the twenty-first

Russian Affair - The True Story of the Couple who Uncovered the Greatest Sporting Scandal (Walsh David)(Paperback / softback)

The extraordinary inside story of the couple who risked it all to reveal the scale of the doping and corruption in Russia, leading to one of the greatest sporting scandals of all

Spider Network - The Wild Story of a Maths Genius and One of the Greatest Scams in Financial History (Enrich David)(Paperback / softback)

The Power and the Glory: Senna, Prost and F1's Golden Era (Sedgwick David)(Pevná vazba)

Set amid the glamour and bravado of 1980s Formula 1, The Power and the Glory tells the story of a rivalry unsurpassed in motor-racing history. By the mid-80s Alain Prost had firmly established himself as leader of the F1 pack. Winning Grands Prix almost at will, the French ace radiated

Arsenal: The Story of a Football Club in 101 Lives (Rippon Anton)(Paperback)

ARSENAL: THE STORY OF A FOOTBALL CLUB IN 101 LIVES tells the history of the Gunners through the biographies of key individuals associated with the club from its formation in the gas-lit days of Victorian Britain through to the present day.From David Danskin, the Scottish mechanical engineer and

Einstein's Greatest Mistake - The Life of a Flawed Genius (Bodanis David)(Paperback / softback)

From the bestselling author of E=mc(2), Einstein's Greatest Mistake is a brisk, accessible biography of Albert Einstein that reveals the genius and hubris of the titan of modern

The Power and the Glory: Royal Navy Fleet Reviews from Earliest Times to 2005 (Dunn Steve)(Pevná vazba)

The Power and the Glory tells the story of royal fleet reviews from the fifteenth century to the 2005 International Fleet Review, commemorating the 200th anniversary of Trafalgar, which was the final exhibition of that pomp and ceremony that had been an essential if irregular expression of naval

There's Only Two David Beckhams (O'Farrell John)(Paperback / softback)

Re-live the glory and the heartache of England's greatest ever game - and THAT World Cup Final back in 2022. Well now it's 2022 and the discussion is finally over, England have eleven players as good as any of them. it's Love vs Duty, it's Truth vs

Natural: The Jimmy Greaves Story (Tossell David)(Pevná vazba)

Jimmy Greaves remains the greatest goalscorer in English football history with 357 top-flight goals, although his England career was defined by the heartbreak of missing the 1966 World Cup Final. After slipping into the grip of alcoholism, he reinvented himself as a popular TV personality. Natural

Alone on the Ice: The Greatest Survival Story in the History of Exploration (Roberts David)(Paperback)

On January 17, 1913, alone and near starvation, Douglas Mawson, leader of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, was hauling a sledge to get back to base camp. The dogs were gone. Now Mawson himself plunged through a snow bridge, dangling over an abyss by the sledge harness. A line of poetry gave

Ghost Stadium (Palmer Tom)(Paperback / softback)

A thrilling ghost story from the author of the popular Football Academy series. Three boys decide to spend the night in an abandoned football stadium, but they're in for a shock as buried secrets come back to haunt them. Particularly suitable for struggling, reluctant and dyslexic readers of

Spy and the Traitor - The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War (MacIntyre Ben)(Paperback / softback)

Around the World in 80 Pints - My Search for Cricket's Greatest Places (Lloyd David)(Paperback / softback)

The latest unmissable volume of autobiography from David 'Bumble' Lloyd, author of Last in the Tin

Great Catastrophe: Armenians and Turks in the Shadow of Genocide (de Waal Thomas)(Paperback)

The destruction of the Armenians of the Ottoman Empire in 1915-16 was the greatest atrocity of World War I. Around one million Armenians were killed, and the survivors were scattered across the world. Although it is now a century old, the issue of what most of the world calls the Armenian Genocide

Brighton Rock (Greene Graham)(Pevná vazba)

From the author of THE POWER AND THE GLORY. A story of gang war in the underworld of Brighton. Pinkie, only seventeen, has already brutally killed a man. Now believing he has escaped retribution, he is unprepared for Ida Arnold, who is determined to avenge the

The Power and the Glory (Greene Graham)(Paperback)

One of the greatest novels of the twentieth century, in a new edition commemorating its 75th anniversary Seventy-five years ago, Graham Greene published The Power and the Glory, a moralist thriller that traces a line of influence back to Dostoyevsky and forward to Cormac McCarthy. Named one of the

Operation Mincemeat - The True Spy Story that Changed the Course of World War II (Macintyre Ben)(Paperback / softback)

From the bestselling author of Agent Zigzag. The thrilling true story of the greatest and most successful wartime deception ever attemptedA Richard & Judy Book Club