By Duncan Hamilton

“Let us praise famous men and our fathers that begat us. All these men were honoured in their generations and were a glory in their days.” So begins the Oscar winning film Chariots of Fire. A fictionalized retelling of the 1924 Olympics and the struggles of Eric Liddell and Harold Abrahams. The first third of the For the Glory gives the account from Liddell’s point of view while the remaining two thirds gives his life after that. Well researched and slow moving it retells his life from the outside.

The problem is that Liddell’s first few years and internment are generally a lot more interesting than his time as the poster child for Chinese missions. Not that his impact there is unimportant. It just lacks the drama of the rest of his life. Good introduction to his life.

400 Pages

3.5/5