The Perfect Mile

by Neal Bascomb

2004 322 pages eng ★ 4.0 (4 ratings)

There was a time when running the mile in four minutes was believed to be beyond the limits of human foot speed, and in all of sport it was the elusive holy grail. But in 1952, three world-class runners set out individually to break this barrier. Rodger Bannister was a young English medical student …