Book description
The Munich air crash of February 6th 1958 killed 8 members of
Manchester United's Busby Babes, and seemed to be the end of the
brilliant team Busby had built. Frank Taylor nearly died in the crash
and during his hospitalization he wrote this book, and revised it
extensively 25 years later to include all the subsequent knowledge
about the crash, as well as to pay tribute to the United team that
eventually won the European Cup in 1968 from the ashes of Busby's
team. Even today Duncan Edwards is remembered as the greatest player
England could have produced, nothing like the Busby Babes had been
seen before and this revised edition pays tribute to Sir Matt Busby,
who died in 1993.
Frank Taylor was the only journalist to survive the Munich air crash
and went on to become the leading sports journalist of his generation.
He worked for the 'Daily Mail', 'Sun' and at the 'Daily Mirror' he
created the concept of putting sports news on the back page of the
newspaper.
