# The Games

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- Book: [The Games](https://www.bookquiver.com/david-goldblatt/the-games) ([The Games.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/david-goldblatt/the-games.md))
- Authors: [David Goldblatt](https://www.bookquiver.com/david-goldblatt)
- Publisher: Pan
- ISBN: 978-14-4729-887-8
- Pages: 544
- Published: 2018-01-11
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Financial Times, Books of the Year 2016 ' Goldblatt has become arguably the premier Anglophone sports historian. Unflinching before millennia worth of material, he tells the Olympic story from the ancient Greeks to today’s festival of sponsors. This book is illuminating, erudite, fair-minded, readable, told at a cracking pace, and put the Games in their social and political context.'