Why did the rescue mission fail so miserably? And why were the reports compiled by the German authorities concealed from the public for more than two decades? Reeves takes on a catastrophe that permanently shifted the political spectrum with a fast-paced narrative that covers the events detail by detail. Within minutes all of the Israeli athletes, five of the terrorists, and one German policeman were dead. Finally, late in the evening, two helicopters bore the terrorists and their surviving hostages to Munich’s little-used Furstenfeldbruck airfield, where events went tragically awry. More than 900 million viewers followed the chilling, twenty-hour event on television, as German authorities desperately negotiated with the terrorists. on September 5, 1972, a band of Palestinian terrorists took eleven Israeli athletes and coaches hostage at the Summer Olympics in Munich.
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