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Blood and Circuses: A Football Journey Through Europe’s Rebel Republics

Robert O'Connor
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In the last decade of the twentieth century, Eastern Europe was plunged into chaos following the disintegration of the Soviet and Yugoslav regimes. Politicians who had once jostled for power on the periphery of the Communist world suddenly became engaged in bloody campaigns as military frontiers sprang up across the region and new nations attempted to assert themselves.

Journalist Robert O’Connor follows those peoples for whom sovereignty and freedom have come at the highest price, telling their stories from the perspective of the ultimate laboratory of social science, the football pitch. For these communities, football has been used both as an act of resistance and as an act of rebuilding.

In Blood and Circuses, O’Connor embarks on an odyssey through the conflict zones of Eastern Europe’s rebel republics to investigate the role that football has played in the bloody inter-ethnic wars in eight of the region’s disputed territories. He discovers how in this part of the world the beautiful game has served as a platform for the expression of identity and an outlet through which to escape the hail of bullets and the iron fist of repression.
Format:
Hardcover
Pages:
320 pages
Publication:
2020
Publisher:
Biteback Publishing
Edition:
Language:
eng
ISBN10:
1785905112
ISBN13:
9781785905117
kindle Asin:
B084KPD8XL

Blood and Circuses: A Football Journey Through Europe’s Rebel Republics

Robert O'Connor
4.00/5 (30 ratings)
Read Download
In the last decade of the twentieth century, Eastern Europe was plunged into chaos following the disintegration of the Soviet and Yugoslav regimes. Politicians who had once jostled for power on the periphery of the Communist world suddenly became engaged in bloody campaigns as military frontiers sprang up across the region and new nations attempted to assert themselves.

Journalist Robert O’Connor follows those peoples for whom sovereignty and freedom have come at the highest price, telling their stories from the perspective of the ultimate laboratory of social science, the football pitch. For these communities, football has been used both as an act of resistance and as an act of rebuilding.

In Blood and Circuses, O’Connor embarks on an odyssey through the conflict zones of Eastern Europe’s rebel republics to investigate the role that football has played in the bloody inter-ethnic wars in eight of the region’s disputed territories. He discovers how in this part of the world the beautiful game has served as a platform for the expression of identity and an outlet through which to escape the hail of bullets and the iron fist of repression.
Format:
Hardcover
Pages:
320 pages
Publication:
2020
Publisher:
Biteback Publishing
Edition:
Language:
eng
ISBN10:
1785905112
ISBN13:
9781785905117
kindle Asin:
B084KPD8XL

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