num_pages: 320
description: In the winter of 1986/7 a group of American students came to Oxford University intent on putting some steel into a boat race crew still reeling from their humiliating defeat at the hands of Cambridge. But what began as a disagreement over training methods between the elected President of the University Boat Club and a fiery-tempered rower from California was to escalate into a bitter confrontation that made headline news worldwide.
language: English
title: True Blue: the Oxford Boat Race mutiny
titlecomplete: True Blue: the Oxford Boat Race mutiny
genres: Sports, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 169
awards: awardedAt: 599644800000
name: William Hill Sports Book of the Year
publisher: Bantam Books