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One Day in September

One Day in September

The Full Story of the 1972 Munich Olympics Massacre and the Israeli Revenge Operation "Wrath of God"

by Simon Reeve
Paperback
Publication Date: 18/08/2011

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At 4:30 a.m. on September 5, 1972, a band of Palestinian terrorists took eleven Israeli athletes and coaches hostage at the Summer Olympics in Munich. More than 900 million viewers followed the chilling, twenty-hour event on television, as German authorities desperately negotiated with the terrorists. Finally, late in the evening, two helicopters bore the terrorists and their surviving hostages to Munich's little-used Furstenfeldbruck airfield, where events went tragically awry. Within minutes all of the Israeli athletes, five of the terrorists, and one German policeman were dead.

Why did the rescue mission fail so miserably? And why were the reports compiled by the German authorities concealed from the public for more than two decades? Reeves takes on a catastrophe that permanently shifted the political spectrum with a fast-paced narrative that covers the events detail by detail. Based on years of exhaustive research, One Day in September is the definitive account of one of the most devastating and politically explosive tragedies of the late twentieth century, one that set the tone for nearly thirty years of renewed conflict in the Middle East.
ISBN:
9781611450354
9781611450354
Category:
European history
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
18-08-2011
Language:
English
Publisher:
Skyhorse Publishing
Country of origin:
United States
Pages:
352
Dimensions (mm):
229x152x152mm
Weight:
0.42kg
Simon Reeve

Simon Reeve has travelled to more than 120 countries, making multiple award-winning TV series for the BBC, including Caribbean, Indian Ocean, Tropic of Cancer, Equator, Sacred Rivers, Greece, Tropic of Capricorn, Turkey, and Australia (Winner of the British Travel Press Award for Broadcast Travel Programme).

Simon has received a One World Broadcasting Trust Award for 'an outstanding contribution to greater world understanding', the prestigious Ness Award from the Royal Geographical Society, and the Special Contribution Award at the Travel Media Awards.

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