About the Book: The Boys in the Boat
An epic true-life journey to the heart of Hitlers Berlin.
Cast aside by his family at an early age, abandoned and left to fend for
himself in the woods of Washington State, young Joe Rantz turns to rowing as a
way of escaping his past.
What follows is an extraordinary journey, as Joe and eight other working-class
boys exchange the sweat and dust of life in 1930s America for the promise of
glory at the heart of Hitlers Berlin. Stroke by stroke, a remarkable young man
strives to regain his shattered self-regard, to dare again to trust