The Olympic Champion Who Chose to Serve in Captivity

In 1943, Eric Liddell — the Scottish sprinter whose Olympic gold medal in Paris had made him a household name — found himself behind the walls of a Japanese internment camp in Weifang, China. He had returned to China as a missionary years earlier. Now he was a prisoner, crowded into a compound with 1,800 other civilians, far from home with no certainty of release.…