2 Books Like Fighting for Survival

Billy Miske: The St. Paul Thunderbolt is Clay Moyle's second biography and a worthy successor to his critically acclaimed tome concerning the life and career of Sam Langford. Miske was one of the most courageous and inspirational figures in boxing history, yet few knew nothing about him until the publication of this book. During a career that was impeded and cut short as a result of his ongoing battle with a terminal illness, Billy fought a number of the greatest fighters who ever lived, including Jack Dillon, Harry Greb and Jack Dempsey. Moyle provides plenty of thrilling details and stories surrounding those fights and those of many other ring legends in this brilliant biography. Miske's courage and perseverance in the face of his impending death, and his personal sacrifice to provide his family with one last Christmas to remember him by, will tug at your heartstrings and leave you with… show more.

"Magnificent! Only Roger Zotti can take a subject like British actor Nicol Williamson, stir in some William Shakespeare, add a pinch of Hannibal Lecter, and a touch of Willie Pep, and amuse a reader over one hundred pages. As unpredictable as comedian Robin Williams, Zotti weaves the reader through a labyrinth of sports and cinema history to hand you a perspective you never dreamed of. Providing vignettes as creative and impressive as his depth of field, Zotti entertains from one page to the next. But unlike many authors, Zotti admits his mistakes. Indeed, and you will die laughing when he admits ordering a case of Raid insect repellent instead of a single can. Picking it up once, I never put it down. As the Bard of Avon often quipped, "Brevity is the soul of wit.”