Battling Jack: You Gotta Fight Back簡(jiǎn)介，目錄書(shū)摘
2019-10-25 14:10
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Battling Jack: You Gotta Fight Back
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內容簡(jiǎn)介:Now in his 80th year, 'Battling' Jack Turpin is the last surviving member of his generation of Britain's best-known and best-loved boxing family. Jack's father, Lionel Turpin, came from British Guiana to volunteer for the British Army during the Great War. He was wounded on the battlefields of France and invalided to Warwick, the first black man to settle in the area. Lionel married a local girl but his early death left her struggling to raise their three sons and two daughters in pre-Welfare State England. As young men, the excitement and gladiatorial glamour of the ring lured Jack and his brothers into professional boxing. From a home-made backstreet gymnasium, they punched their way into the record books and into the hearts of the British people. IBattling Jack/I is a wonderfully narrated account of the life and times of a remarkable man who was once Britain's busiest featherweight. It is also the history of the beginnings of a black presence in British boxing. Turpin offers us a ringside seat at heroic battles and comic encounters. He takes us behind the scenes of a scandal that rocked the sporting world and into his confidence about the mystery that surrounds his younger brother's death. Jack Turpin has out-stared ignorance and prejudice, tasted triumph and celebrity, and endured hardship and tragedy. Heart-rending, raw, honest and funny, his is a story that had to be told.
作者簡(jiǎn)介:Jack Turpin dethroned all the established heroes in British boxing during the 1940s and '50s. Following retirement, he trained many outstanding boxers and is an acknowledged expert on both the amateur and professional sides of the fight game. W. Terry Fox was awarded a first-class honours degree in writing and music at the Manchester Metropolitan University and is much sought-after as a lecturer, musician and writer.
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