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True Blue: The Oxford Boat Race Mutiny (Hardcover)

by Daniel Topolski (Author), Patrick Robinson (Author)
4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)

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  • Hardcover: 320 pages
  • Publisher: Doubleday & Co Inc. (2 Mar 1989)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0385268920
  • ISBN-13: 978-0385268929
  • Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 547,514 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars A gripping story of a mutiny in the Oxford boat race crew., 26 April 1999
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This review is from: True Blue: The Oxford Boat Race Mutiny (Paperback)
A classic sporting story, with heroes and villains. That the former are British and the latter American makes it particularly enjoyable.
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5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars A well written true story of the infamous Boat Race mutiny., 7 May 1999
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This review is from: True Blue: The Story of the Oxford Boat Race Mutiny (Paperback)
This book delves into the feelings and actions in the preceeding year to the 1987 Boat Race. This book follows the life of two of Oxford's most well known people, Donald Macdonald and Daniel Topolski. I have to say that I could not put it down. I have read it three times more and every time still found it to be a great book. Full of betrayal, deceit and the English men that conquered it.
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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars A ripping story, breathlessly told, but "true"?, 13 May 1999
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This review is from: True Blue: The Story of the Oxford Boat Race Mutiny (Paperback)
It is not easy to explain to anyone what the big attraction of rowing is, and this book mostly succeeds (see also The Amateurs). The author's (or at least Topolski's) passion for the big race is communicated well, and the book is full of entertaining anecdotes about previous Boat Race legends.

However, given that this claims to be a true story, the characters have an unsatisfying comic-book feel about them, and are barely recognisable from their real-life equivalents. The action is full of noticeable omissions in the interest of a nice straightforward story. There are heroic goodies and dastardly baddies, and the simmering anti-Americanism that is never far beneath the surface of much English journalism shines through.

Regardless of who did or said exactly what in 1987, there is an interesting debate to be had around creeping professionalism in one of the last truly amateur sports, around the lengths that the universities will go to win this race, and around the vicious spitefulness that successful rowers (particularly in Oxford) often seem to incite, but this book isn't it.

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5.0 out of 5 stars A true story
This was an excellent book by the coach of the Oxford squad in the 1980s Daniel Topolski, they do say truth is strager than fiction, and this book shows its alot more interesting... Read more
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3.0 out of 5 stars BIG DEAL
Picture this scene and try to imagine what it is all about. `A lone figure was standing up...balancing like a statue.... Read more
Published on 28 May 2007 by DAVID BRYSON

5.0 out of 5 stars a moving story of courage standing up to unspeakable deceit
Topolski tells a tale of brash American students attending Oxford trying to take over the greatest boat race in the world in the most cowardly and deceitful manner. Read more
Published on 23 April 1999

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