Frozen in Time: The Enduring Legacy of the 1961 U.S. Figure Skating Team (Paperback)

from ABVR

This book is an amateur historian's labor of love: A story about a group of people, a sport, and a time for which she obviously has enormous affection. It's untainted by any sense of perspective, proportion, or any of the larger contexts into which it might have been fitted. All the skaters profi...

from Katie_H

I browsed through several online reviews of this book prior to reading it, and they were all extremely positive, so I was excited to begin, but ultimately I found this book to be mediocre. The story tells of the 1961 plane crash that killed the entire U.S. world figure skating team, as well as th...

from collsers

Growing up, I dreamed of becoming one of the "Ice Princesses" that Nichols writes about, even though I couldn't stand on skates. Reading this book took me back to those days, and I really appreciated the amount of detail that Nichols provided for readers without a skating background (explaining t...

from janoorani24

Frozen in Time: The Enduring Legacy of the 1961 U.S. Figure Skating Team by Nikki Nichols tells the story of the U. S. figure skaters, coaches and their families who all perished in a plane crash on their way to the World Figure Skating Championships in Prague in 1961. The book begins by describi...

from lindapanzo

This is an interesting book about the 1961 U.S. figure skating team which, along with coaches, parents, and others, all perished in a Sabena airplane crash in Belgium en route to the World Championships in Prague. The focus is on two of the families--the Owens family and the Westerfield family--b...