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“jeff connor”

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  • Busby's Last Crusade

    From Munich to Wembley: A Pictorial History

    by Jeff Connor ...
    A pictorial history of Manchester United's rise from the 1958 Munich air disaster to a European Cup win ten years later, and the manager who led them there.With words from best-selling author Jeff Connor and over 200 images, many of them new to the public, this is one man's search for his personal Holy Grail, and his determination to get there. This is not a eulogy for Sir Matt Busby. As Connor ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Wide-Eyed and Legless

    Inside the Tour de France

    by Jeff Connor ...
    In 1987, the Tour was won by Irishman Stephen Roche. It was the first time the champion had hailed from outside the Continent or the States and the first time in 20 years a British team - ANC Halfords - had competed in the world's toughest and craziest race. Jeff Connor not only stayed with the British team but also found himself an unofficial team member.In this long-awaited new edition of Wide ... Read more

    $14.59 USD

  • The Lost Babes

    Manchester United and the Forgotten Victims of Munich

    by Jeff Connor ...
    A moving story of how a legendary football team was lost to tragedy – and how this disaster irrevocably altered the lives of the survivors and the bereaved families, and ultimately brought shame on the biggest football club in the world.The Manchester United team Matt Busby had built in the fifties from the club's successful youth policy seemed destined to dominate football for many years. Such ... Read more

    $0.99 USD

  • Field of Fire

    The Tour de France of '87 and the Rise and Fall of ANC-Halfords

    by Jeff Connor ...
    In 1987, a British-based team competed in the Tour de France for the first time in almost two decades. The ANC-Halfords squad were decimated by the punishing pace, the manager walked out during one of the Alpine stages, five of the nine riders and some of the staff never made it to Paris, and most of the personnel went unpaid. ANC were the definitive innocents abroad and it became one of the great ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Dougal Haston: The Philosophy Of Risk

    by Jeff Connor ...
    The untimely death of Dougal Haston in 1977 robbed climbing of one of its most charismatic, controversial and enigmatic figures. A man of extremes, who managed to combine a rock star's lifestyle with a career at the cutting edge of world mountaineering, Haston remains a cult figure whose deeds have inspired generations of climbers world-wide.Connor traces the career of a great climber from his ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • An Introduction to Language and Linguistics

    Edited by Ralph W. Fasold, Jeff Connor-Linton ...
    A clear and up-to-date introduction to linguistics. This best-selling textbook addresses the full scope of language, from the traditional subjects of structural linguistics (relating to sound, form, meaning and language change) to the more specialised subjects of contextual linguistics (including discourse, dialect variation, language and culture, and the politics of language). There are also ... Read more

    $60.69 USD

  • Once Were Lions

    The Players’ Stories: Inside the World’s Most Famous Rugby Team

    by Jeff Connor, Martin Hannan ...
    Drawing on first hand interviews from more than 75 British Lions tourists since the golden age of the fifties, this book captures what it means to be a British Lions rugby player – the historic victories, the glorious failures and the stories surrounding the icons of rugby such as Edwards, Bennett, Hastings, Guscott, Dallaglio and Johnson.The British and Irish Lions are one of the most famous and ... Read more

    $0.99 USD

  • Giants Of Scottish Rugby

    by Jeff Connor ...
    From the heights of the Grand Slams to a near whitewash in the 2000 Six Nations championship, one factor has remained constant in Scottish rugby - its huge resource of characters.Early in the year 2000, Jeff Connor set out on a mission to track down some of Scotland's best-known players, the true giants of the game, and discover whether there is life after international rugby. The result was 40 ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

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  • Triumphs and Turbulence

    My Autobiography

    by Chris Boardman ...
    Chris Boardman is the 2017 winner of the Cross Sports Cycling Book of the Year for his autobiography Triumphs and Turbulence.‘The true inspiration was that Olympic gold won by Chris Boardman in Barcelona… I was so in awe of Chris Boardman’ Sir Bradley WigginsYou may know him as the much-loved co-presenter of ITV’s Tour de France coverage or enjoyed his BBC Olympic coverage, but beyond the easy ... Read more

    $19.09 USD

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  • Domestique

    The Real-life Ups and Downs of a Tour Pro

    by Charly Wegelius ...
    For 11 years I was a professional cyclist, competing in the hardest and greatest races on Earth. I was in demand from the world's best teams, a well-paid elite athlete. But I never won a race. I was the hired help.When my mum dropped me off in a small French town aged 17, I was full of determination to be a professional cyclist, but I was completely green. I went from mowing the team manager's ... Read more

    $21.29 USD

  • Inside Team Sky

    by David Walsh ...
    The inside story of Team Sky's challenge for the 2013 Tour de France.After the victory of Bradley Wiggins and Team Sky in the 2012 Tour de France, the pressure was on the team to repeat their success in 2013. When Wiggins had to pull out of the defence of his yellow jersey, attention moved to Chris Froome, who had finished as runner-up the year before. Could he bring about back-to-back victories ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • A Clean Break

    My Story

    by Christophe Bassons, Benoît Hopquin ...
    Translated by Mr Peter Cossins ...
    The autobiography of cycling's Mr Clean who refused to dope or to remain silent about doping – and was exiled from the sport.Christophe Bassons is a former professional cyclist. His career was a successful one albeit never in the full glare of the media. That all changed when, in 1998, the Festina doping scandal broke and Bassons shot to fame as one of the handful of clean riders in the peloton - ... Read more

    $16.09 USD