Endurance in the 1919 Tour de FranceConstant Wonder • Season 2022, Episode 1092, Segment 1
Jul 16, 2021 • 36m
On June 29, 1919, only one day after the Treaty of Versailles ended WWI, some 70 cyclists started on the thirteenth Tour De France. Most had arrived straight from the front, where so many of their countrymen had suffered or died.
Guest: Adin Dobkin author of "Sprinting Through No Man's Land: Endurance, Tragedy, and Rebirth in the 1919 Tour de France"