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Getting paid to watch sport from the best seats in the house and to chew the fat with sportsmen every day of the week cant be called a real job can it? Ron Reed has spent more than 50 years as one of Australias leading sports journalists. He has a fascination for the games people play and the people who play them. In particular, the Olympic Games became a passion. After attending his first Olympics in person in 1984, Ron decided to attend the Games one last time, in Tokyo 2020, to fulfil what had become a consuming private and personal interest. He had planned to visit the memorial to the victims and survivors of the atomic bombing of the southern city of Nagasaki, the catalyst for ending the Second World War. His father, Private William Cecil Reed, was a prisoner of war in Nagasaki and survived that horrific event when tens of thousands of others did not. War Games was to bookend the experiences of father and son in the country that held an unlikely connection for them. Despite the p

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      Publisher Wilkinson Publishing
      Published 4 January 2021
      ISBN-13 9781925927375
      978-1925927375
      ISBN-10 1925927377

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      Book Synopsis
      Getting paid to watch sport from the best seats in the house and to chew the fat with sportsmen every day of the week cant be called a real job can it? Ron Reed has spent more than 50 years as one of Australias leading sports journalists. He has a fascination for the games people play and the people who play them. In particular, the Olympic Games became a passion. After attending his first Olympics in person in 1984, Ron decided to attend the Games one last time, in Tokyo 2020, to fulfil what had become a consuming private and personal interest. He had planned to visit the memorial to the victims and survivors of the atomic bombing of the southern city of Nagasaki, the catalyst for ending the Second World War. His father, Private William Cecil Reed, was a prisoner of war in Nagasaki and survived that horrific event when tens of thousands of others did not. War Games was to bookend the experiences of father and son in the country that held an unlikely connection for them. Despite the p

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