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Author Fisher, Marshall.

Title A terrible splendor : three extraordinary men, a world poised for war, and the greatest tennis match ever played / Marshall Jon Fisher.

Publication Info. New York : Crown Publishers, [2009]
©2009

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Location Call No. Status
 West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Non Fiction  796.342 FISHER    Check Shelf
Edition First edition.
Description 321 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [272]-312) and index.
Contents The gentleman of Wimbledon -- Appeasement -- An American twist -- "I'm playing for my life" -- No man living or dead -- Miracles of redemption.
Subject Davis Cup -- History.
Tennis -- Tournaments -- History.
Cramm, Gottfried von, 1909-1976.
Tennis players -- Germany -- Biography.
Gay men -- Germany -- Biography.
Gays -- Nazi persecution.
National socialism.
Budge, Don, 1915-2000.
Tennis players -- United States -- Biography.
ISBN 9780307393944
0307393941
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