PRIDE & GLORY
Pride & Glory - The Forgotten Story of Great Britain's Greatest Olympic Team
By Rob Jovanovic
More than 75 years have passed but still there is no British Olympic triumph to match it. You might think that you’ve heard all about Britain’s great Olympic heroes but this tale overshadows them all.
In 1936, Great Britain became not only the first team to defeat Canada in Olympic ice hockey, but they also became the European, World and Olympic champions too.
The Brits were rank outsiders for a medal and, even though the team was cobbled together at the last moment, they sensationally rose to the occasion.
In their seven games they managed to stay undefeated and cause an upset which reverberated around the world.
Rob Jovanovic has spent five years tracing the families of the GB team and constructing the players’ stories.
His research has taken him from leafy southern England to 19th-Century Glasgow, across the Atlantic to the great plains of Canada and back to the Nazi Germany of the 1930s, before an unlikely ending in Nottingham.
This is the classic story of a group of men winning against all the odds. A group who didn’t want the fame or the riches that came with success, the winning was enough. This is the story of their Pride & Glory.
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