Five Rings and One Star: From Bergen-Belsen to Munich '72: The Story of Shaul Ladany

5 September, 1972. 4.30 a.m. The Munich Olympic Village. Black September, a group of Palestinian terrorists, break into the Israeli team's apartments. It is the beginning of the most tragic event in Olympic history and, after twenty hours, the day will end in a massacre, with the deaths of eleven Israelis, five Palestinians and a German policeman.

This is the story of the race—walker Shaul Ladany: a survivor. But more than just a member of the Israeli team from those terrible events in Munic...