The Sarajevo Olympics: A History of the 1984 Winter Games

by Jason Vuic

To most observers, the 1984 Winter Olympics in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia, were an unmitigated success. That year, the unlikeliest of candidate cities in the unlikeliest of candidate countries did what many had thought impossible: it hosted an international sports competition at the highest level, housing and feeding hundreds of athletes and thousands of tourists while broadcasting a positive image of socialist Yugoslavia to the world.

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1625341652
• ISBN13: 9781625341655
• Release Date: April 2015
• Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.0"