Synopses & Reviews
All sports have pivotal moments, single events that change perceptions forever after. For the sport of running such a moment passed on a blustery May afternoon in 1954, when Roger Bannister broke the four-minute mile. This is the story of that epic run.Today, forty years later, lovers of sport - runners and non-runners alike - will be moved by this modest but impassioned story of one of sport's true heroes. (5 1/2 X 8 1/4, 264 pages, charts)