More Power: The Story of Jurgen Grobler: The most successful Olympic coach of all time

Arguably the greatest coach in British sporting history. SHORTLISTED FOR THE TELEGRAPH SPORTS BOOK AWARDS Jurgen Grobler's Olympic coaching career is one of legend, yet the man himself has remained resolutely out of the spotlight. Over the last twenty years he has masterminded British Rowing's incomparable success. And when the difference between gold and silver can mean mere fractions of a second, Jurgen Grobler has consistently delivered Olympic gold through various boat classes and with an ever-changing group of athletes. Arguably the greatest coach in British sporting history, Grobler's unparalleled record outstrips many much better known records and stories; building champions such as Sir Steve Redgrave, Sir Matthew Pinsent and James Cracknell to name but few. This authoritative account of Grobler's career straddles the Iron Curtain, beginning in the German Democratic Republic, where systemic state-funded doping was an open secret, before crossing to Britain following the fall of the Berlin Wall. And whilst culture and sport have shifted dramatically over the last half century, Grobler's pursuit of greatness has never faltered. Written by Olympic medallist, Hugh Matheson, and rowing historian, Christopher Dodd, More Power is the unmissable story of one man's quest for glory, and sets out to unlock the secrets of Jurgen Grobler: the finest coach Olympic sport has ever seen.

Matheson, Hugh

Dodd, Christopher

History

The most successful Olympian you’ve never heard of….
Jürgen Gröbler’s Olympic coaching career is one of legend, yet the man himself has remained resolutely out of the spotlight. Over the last twenty years he has masterminded British Rowing’s incomparable success. And when the difference between gold and silver can mean mere fractions of a second, Jürgen Gröbler, and his more power mantra, has achieved gloriously consistent victory. Arguably the greatest coach in British sporting history, Gröbler’s unparalleled record ranks him above national heroes such as Sir Alex Ferguson and Dave Brailsford, building champions such as Sir Steve Redgrave, Sir Matthew Pinsent and James Cracknell.
This authoritative account of Gröbler’s career straddles the Iron Curtain, beginning in the German Democratic Republic, where systemic state-funded doping was an open secret, before crossing to Britain following the fall of the Berlin Wall. And whilst culture and sport have shifted dramatically over the last half century, Gröbler’s pursuit of greatness has never faltered.
Written by Olympic medallist, Hugh Matheson, and rowing historian, Christopher Dodd, More Power is the unmissable story of one man’s quest for glory, and sets out to unlock the secrets of Jürgen Gröbler: the finest coach Olympic sport has ever seen.

Biographies & Memoirs

Leaders & Notable People

This informal history of the 150 years of the Henley Royal Regatta examines individual episodes and characters from different periods and uses them as points of departure to unfold the story. The author looks at controversial issues which have divided the rowing world over the years, such as diet and health, rowing techniques, the structures of the boats, whether the events should be amateur or professional and whether foreign sportsmen should be allowed to compete. The book includes tales of invaders from America, Europe and Australia, including the Harvard crew of 1914 who returned in 1964, and the Russian boats which were strike-bound in 1956. For the statistically-minded there is a section of complete records. Christopher Dodd has also written "The Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race".

Henley Royal Regatta

Sports & Outdoors

Hutchinson

The Oxford & Cambridge boat race

S.Paul

This informal history of the 150 years of the Henley Royal Regatta examines individual episodes and characters from different periods and uses them as points of departure to unfold the story. The author looks at controversial issues which have divided the rowing world over the years, such as diet and health, rowing techniques, the structures of the boats, whether the events should be amateur or professional and whether foreign sportsmen should be allowed to compete. The book includes tales of invaders from America, Europe and Australia, including the Harvard crew of 1914 who returned in 1964, and the Russian boats which were strike-bound in 1956. For the statistically-minded there is a section of complete records. Christopher Dodd has also written "The Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race".

Water Sports

Stanley Paul

Century Hutchinson*

STORY OF WORLD ROWING

'There is nothing -- absolutely nothing -- half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats', said Ratty to Mole, a sentiment doubted by Montmorency, the dog who skiffed with Jerome K. Jerome's three men, but echoed by picnickers, punters, and pleasure-seekers as well as competitive rowers and scullers the world over.  Christopher Dodd, the Guardian's Deputy Features Editor and rowing correspondent, has chosen a varied and entertaining selection of anecdotes from Kenneth Grahame's classic to East Germany's coaching manual.  There are true-life accounts of triumphs and disasters in the Boat Race, at Henley, on the Thames and the Wear, memoirs of rowing's greats and gurus, of humble and proud heroes of fiction.  From Beerbohm's bewitching Zuleika Dobson to Kipling's vision of the galleys, from tea at Richmond with Dr. Furnivall and the ABC girls to a Tyneside dance, from Dickens's Lambeth to tiffin in Shanghai, "Boating" adds wit and wisdom to the charm of the oar and the lure of the river.  Dodd is a journalist turned writer and historian, specializing in rowing.  After thirty years helping to edit the Guardian, he co-founded the River & Rowing Museum at Henley-on-Thames, where he is a historian and curator.  He was the founding co-editor, with Rachel Quarrell, of Rowing Voice, an independent electronic magazine which entered the air waves after the success of the Eton Mess daily publication at the World Rowing Championships in 2006.  The Voice covers the big events like nobody else, and occasionally blogs (voice.rowingservice.com).

Boating (Small Oxford books)

Literature & Fiction

Oxford University Press

For some sixty years, the Nuremberg trials have demonstrated the resolve of the United States and its fellow Allied victors of the Second World War to uphold the principles of dispassionate justice and the rule of law even when cries of vengeance threatened to carry the day. In the summer of 1945, soon after the unconditional surrender of Nazi Germany, Thomas J. Dodd, the father of U.S. Senator Christopher J. Dodd of Connecticut, traveled to the devastated city of Nuremberg to serve as a staff lawyer in this unprecedented trial for crimes against humanity. Thanks to his agile legal mind and especially to his skills at interrogating the defendants—including such notorious figures as Hermann Göring, Alfred Rosenberg, Albert Speer, Joachim von Ribbentrop, and Rudolf Hess—he quickly rose to become the number two prosecutor in the U.S. contingent. Over the course of fifteen months, Dodd described his efforts and his impressions of the proceedings in nightly letters to his wife, Grace. The letters remained in the Dodd family archives, unexamined, for decades. When Christopher Dodd, who followed his father’s path to the Senate, sat down to read the letters, he was overwhelmed by their intimacy, by the love story they unveil, by their power to paint vivid portraits of the accused war criminals, and by their insights into the historical importance of the trials. Along with Christopher Dodd’s reflections on his father’s life and career, and on the inspiration that good people across the world have long taken from the event that unfolded in the courtroom at Nuremberg, where justice proved to be stronger than the most unspeakable evil, these letters give us a fresh, personal, and often unique perspective on a true turning point in the history of our time. In today’s world, with new global threats once again put-ting our ideals to the test, Letters from Nuremberg reminds us that fear and retribution are not the only bases for confrontation. As Christopher Dodd says here, “Now, as in the era of Nuremberg, this nation should never tailor its eternal principles to the conflict of the moment, for if we do so, we will be shadowing those we seek to overcome.”

Letters from Nuremberg: My Father's Narrative of a Quest for Justice

Bloom, Lary

Europe

Crown

Historical

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