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Shortlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year this is the bestselling story about a rowing teams quest for Olympic gold in Nazi Germany

Cast aside by his family at an early age abandoned and left to fend for himself in the woods of Washington State young Joe Rantz turns to rowing as a way of escaping his past

What follows is an extraordinary journey as Joe and eight other workingclass boys exchange the sweat and dust of life in 1930s America for the promise of glory at the heart of Hitlers Berlin Stroke by stroke a remarkable young man strives to regain his shattered selfregard to dare again to trust in others and to find his way back home

Told against the backdrop of the Great Depression Daniel James Browns The Boys in the Boat is narrative nonfiction of the first order a personal story full of lyricism and unexpected beauty that rises above the grand sweep of history and captures instead the purest essence of what it means to be alive