How the Munich air disaster broke the heart of a great city
David Hall has been a lifelong Manchester United fan, and was eleven when the Munich air disaster happened. He has been a TV producer for over thirty years and made many television series with Fred Dibnah for the BBC. He is also the author of Fred, the definitive biography of Fred Dibnah, published by Bantam Press.
Not only the best book on Munich, but one of the very best books on
the United. I presumed there was nothing new to say on the crash,
but David Hall proved me completely wrong. It's a totally
refreshing account, and Hall captures brilliantly the atmosphere of
Manchester in those winter days of 1958.
*Michael Crick*
Almost everything we've ever read about Munich has been from the
point of view of the victims and the survivors - so David Hall's
book is a welcome and fascinating record of what it was like to be
an 11-year-old Mancunian whose team had its heart ripped out on a
foreign airfield. It is the mass of telling detail which makes this
book so interesting... intimate and personal.
*The Independent*
Where David Hall's deeply humbling book differs, is that he offers
a supporter's perspective of one of the most intimate tragedies of
post-war Britain, one which united an entire nation, irrespective
of one's club loyalties, in grief. [A] heart-rending tribute to a
side that had become great ambassadors for club and country - both
on and off the pitch.
*Yorkshire Post*
Fitting tribute to a sport's tragic loss
*Coventry Telegraph*
Excellent
*Blackpool Gazette*
As a child of the 70's and 80's, I have never read a more
insightful account of what it was like to follow United in those
far-off days... A picture may be worth a thousand words but these
words create a thousand pictures... an essential part of anyone's
reading about United history.
*Under the Boardwalk*
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