"PIECES OF EIGHT" -Bob Janousek and his Olympians

 A memoir by Chris Dodd :
Pieces of Eight is the story of the revolution that fired Britain´s assault on the peaks of international rowing , told by the oarsman and the coach who made it happen and the newspapermen who reported its progress.
The book also revealshow Janousek and his squad broke the power of the private navies and pulled down rowing´s social barriers  - two phenomena that hampered the sport´s progress for a hundred years .