The Olympic Champion Who Found Joy Behind Barbed Wire

Eric Liddell won Olympic gold in the 400 meters at the 1924 Paris Games. The world celebrated him as the Flying Scotsman. But twenty years later, he stood behind barbed wire in the Weihsien internment camp in Shandong, China, a prisoner of the Japanese military. The camp was overcrowded, filthy, and thick with despair. Rations were thin. Disease spread easily.…