Eric Liddle is famous for being the man who would not compromise his religious principles and refused to compete in the Olympics on a Sunday - despite the fact that he was the red hot favourite for the gold. Instead he entered a different event that was not being competed on the Sabbath. . . and won a gold anyway. One of Scotland's finest athletes, Liddle was feted throughout the United Kingdom. At the height of his fame, however, he slipped quietly out of the limelight to become a missionary in China, where he later came to an unpleasant end in a Japanese internment camp.
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Publisher : The History Press; UK ed. edition (1 Jun. 2007)
Language : English
Paperback : 192 pages
ISBN-10 : 0752443526
ISBN-13 : 978-0752443522
Dimensions : 12.5 x 1.12 x 19.81 cm
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