War in the Ring: Joe Louis, Max Schmeling, and the Fight Between America and Hitler by John Florio, Ouisie Shapiro

War in the Ring: Joe Louis, Max Schmeling, and the Fight Between America and Hitler

John Florio, Ouisie Shapiro

208 pages • first pub 2019 (editions)

nonfiction biography history sports informative slow-paced
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America's black boxing champion. Hitler's favorite athlete. And a world at war. Joe Louis was born on an Alabama cotton patch and raised in a Detroit ghetto. Max Schmeling grew up in poverty in Hamburg, Germany. For both boys, boxing was a way out...

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