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Eric Liddell was as near to a saint as any man in modern record has been. Renowned for his athletic prowess, it was also his deeply entrenched beliefs that place him apart from the crowd. These characteristics were never better illustrated than in the 1924 Paris Olympics when, having dropped his devote the 100 metres owing to the fact that the race was operate on a Weekend, he produced an astonishing performance to earn silver in the 400 metres and captured the hearts of the world. Liddell was immortalised in the Oscar-winning Chariots of Hearth, but that film barely scratched the surface of his life (as well as being economical with the facts). It had been China, where he previously developed, that was Liddell's enthusiasm, and his zeal was to increase the whole lot of its most unlucky people in a period of terrible assault and threat, when the united states lay under the brutal hand of the invading Japanese military. He was actually on a mission, a force once and for all on the globe. For the Glory can take the listener from Liddell, the most effective man on earth, through Liddell, the person with a higher goal, to Liddell when he previously to be better than all around him, detained within an internment camp under awful conditions, when he became the moral centre of otherwise intolerable world. Liddell would make the best sacrifice, but the tale of his life continues to inspire technology after technology, from all walks of life. This is actually the story of a genuine hero of your times.
