In his book, The King of the Road, he tells a remarkable and enthralling story about his life, from growing up in Belgrade at the time of the German invasion of 1941, to their escape to Hungary, being moved to a Jewish ghetto and from there on to the notorious Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. Ladany tells this early part of his story with a mixture of humility and sadness.
Following the war Ladany and his family move to the new state of Israel where he begins running races, before moving to race walking. In this, Ladany discovers his true gift as he becomes a record-breaking athlete, racing in the USA and leading from him competing in the 1968 Mexico Olympics to winning the London to Brighton road race, right through to the horrific events of Munich in 1972.
The King of the Road is a moving story of suffering, sadness, hope and joy and is told with a clarity and understanding which is rarely found in a book these days. It will fill your heart with warmth and delight.
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One senses the anguish and the excitement, the sheer nerve and determination of a man who took on the Israeli athletic establishment and did it all, his way. He manifests the courage to push beyond his own limits and the reader will experience the anguish and the exuberance of the life that Ladany has led. He earned my admiration, my respect and my gratitude. He will earn yours as well. --Michael Berenbaum, Executive Editor, Encyclopaedia Judaica
Packed with insider info on the life of a long-distance athlete and interesting anecdotes from the authors life, Shaul Ladany's King of the Road will appeal to anyone who has ever reached for a goal in life and pushed to be the best. This book will inspire you! --Tal Brody, former Captain, Maccabi Tel Aviv basketball team; first sportsman to receive the Israel Prize
Ladany, 72, is the ultimate survivor. Not just of Munich, where he managed to escape the wrath of terrorists during the attack in the Olympic village. Ladany also spent months in a Nazi concentration camp (Bergen-Belsen), had recurring bouts with skin cancer and lymphoma, and endured enough legal and administrative skirmishes to wear down most mortals.
On July 4, his charter flight to Berlin lost one of its two engines 90 minutes into the air, turned back and made a successful emergency landing in Tel Aviv. But then, Ladany has always been beyond us. He speaks nine languages and is a professor of industrial engineering with 8 patents, 110 scientific papers, 13 books and more up his sleeve. --New York Times
He survived the Holocaust and then escaped the Munich Massacre. Today, at the age of 72, he is an athletics phenomenon... Given the extraordinary course of his life, it would be fair to call him the great survivor the ultimate survivor even... The septuagenarian professor and race walker has survived not one but two of the great global horrors of the past 100 years. As an eight-year-old, back in 1944, he was interned in Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. He was one of the few of Yugoslavia's 70,000 Jews to survive the Holocaust. As a 36-year-old, in 1972, he was a member of the Israeli team who were attacked by Palestinian terrorists at the Munich Olympics. He was one of six male athletes who managed to escape from the Black September group. --The Independent
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