"Co-authors Richard Menkis and Harold Troper are talented writers with a keen eye for detail. More Than Just Games is not merely honest; it is compelling.”
Holly Cross, Blacklocks Reporter, June 6, 2015
“That the scholarship of academics with the credentials of [Richard] Menkis and [Harold] Troper would be impeccable I had no doubt. What I hadn’t anticipated was the immediacy they could evoke with their writing. The amount of detail they provide serves to bring readers into the period leading up to Canada’s decision to send athletes to the Olympic Games in Berlin in 1936, when there could be no doubt as to the Nazis’ actions and intentions. “
Cynthia Ramsey, Jewish Independent, Friday, December 4, 2015
‘Menkis and Troper, veteran Canadian historians have produced a definitive history of Canada’s role in the 1936 Olympic Games held in Nazi Germany. Their well-researched account covers all aspects of the games…. Highly recommended.’
J.D. Sarna, Choice Magazine vol 53:05:2015
‘This book is one of the finest examples of sport history that I’ve read in some time. More than Just Games will be mainstay on the shelves of historians of years to come.’
MacIntosh Ross, Olympika: The International Journal of Olympic Studies – vol 24:2015
‘Menkis & Troper provide an excellent account of the preparations for the games…. They offer an outstanding examination of the experience of Canadian athletes and teams in both winter and summer Olympics.’
Chris Mack, The American Jewish Archives Journal vol 68: 01:2016
‘It is a compelling story that deserves to be read.’
James W.St.G. Walker, The American Historical review vol 121:04:2016
‘This is a splendid book!’
Robert K. Barney, Sport History Review vol 47:01:2016
‘What Menkis & Troper have presented in their book is refreshing and deeply intriguing study of the diverging political and social interests in Canada in the lead up to the 1936 Nazi Olympic Games… Artfully written and is without a doubt, exceptionally researched.’
Brad J. Congelio, Journal of Sport History, vol 43:03:2016
“More than Just Games proves that the story of Canada and the 1936 Olympics is a compelling one that needs to be told.”
Dana Herman, Ph.D., The Jacob Rader Marcus Center of the American Jewish Archives
“More than Just Games is more than just another book about that most controversial of Olympiads, the German Games of 1936. In exploring for the first time Canada's role in the Garmisch and Berlin festivals, Menkis and Troper remind us why the Olympic Five-Ring Circus is the most problematical, as well as the most intriguing, sports show on earth. A compelling story, brilliantly told.”
David Clay Large, Institute of European Studies, University of California Berkeley, and author of 'Nazi Games: The Olympics of 1936'
“A thoroughly researched, carefully argued, and engrossingly written account of Canada's encounter with the Nazi Olympics. What’s particularly helpful is the way Menkis and Troper place the debates and initiatives within the sport, political, and Jewish communities in the context of the times. We should have done better, but there's no ahistorical condemnation here. It’s very judicious.”
Bruce Kidd, Principal, University of Toronto Scarborough, and Olympian
“Menkis and Troper have made an enormously important contribution to Canadian studies with More than Just Games. This is a very good book, and one whose themes are of considerable interest in the social history of this country.”
Gerald Tulchinsky, Department of History, Queen's University
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