Road to Valour

On September 8, 2012, the book was number eight after a five-week period on the Maclean's Non-Fiction Bestseller List.^[1]

Ben Reiter of Sports Illustrated praised the book's “exhaustive research,” and compared it to Laura Hillenbrand's “Seabiscuit: An American Legend.”^[2] Bill Littlefield reviewed the book for NPR^[3] and in The Boston Globe, praised the authors for telling the story of Bartali's "great and greater victories powerfully and well.”^[4] The Globe and Mail called it “(i)mpeccably researched and thrillingly told."^[5] Publishers Weekly found it to be “both inspiring and immensely enjoyable.”^[6] Booklist described it as a "dramatic and moving story that is virtually unknown to most readers."^[5] Nobel Laureate Elie Wiesel described Bartali's story as "a moving example of moral courage."^[5]

Road to Valour won the Mazzei Prize from the National Italian-American Foundation in 2012,^[7] a Christopher Award,^[8] and the Canadian Jewish Book Award for biography in 2013.^[9] It was also shortlisted as a finalist for the 2013 PEN/ESPN Prize for Literary Sports Writing.^[10]