Reception and Other Accounts
The book, and the mutiny itself, continue to divide rowers even 20 years afterwards. British Olympic champion oarsman Martin Cross describes the book as "... one of the most entertaining (if not wholly accurate) sports books ever written ...", and refers to its treatment of one of the American 'mutineers', Chris Clark, in the following terms: "As character assassinations go, it is ruthless."
Alison Gill, an Oxford oarswoman at the time of the mutiny, wrote The Yanks at Oxford, a book that attempted to counter the perceived bias in Topolski's account.
The captain, Donald Macdonald, broke a 25-year silence to give his own account of the course of events in a 2012 newspaper interview.
Read more about this topic: True Blue: The Oxford Boat Race Mutiny
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