Massacre in Munich: How Terrorists Changed the Olympics and the World (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780756552923)

An attack at the 1972 Munich Olympic Games would produce one of the defining images of international terrorism. The chilling photo of a hooded man peering from a balcony in the Olympic Village would be viewed worldwide as a horrific symbol of global terrorism. The man wearing a mask with cutout slits for his eyes was a member of the Palestinian terrorist group Black September. He and his fellow terrorists had seized 11 members of the Israeli Olympic delegation and were holding them hostage. They would kill them all as the tragedy unfolded. What had been dubbed the "happy Olympics" would be forever remembered as the Munich massacre. The Olympics would never the same.

Author: Don Nardo
ISBN-10: 0756552923
ISBN-13: 9780756552923
Publisher: Compass Point Books
Language: English
Published: 01/01/2016
Pages: 64
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 10.30h x 9.50w x 0.30d

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 7.4
Point Value: 1
Interest Level: Middle Grade
Quiz #/Name: 179389 / Massacre in Munich: How Terrorists Changed the Olympics and the World


Review Citation(s):
School Library Journal 04/01/2016 pg. 109