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  • Faster: How a Jewish Driver, an American Heiress, and a Legendary Car Beat Hitler's Best

Faster: How a Jewish Driver, an American Heiress, and a Legendary Car Beat Hitler's Best

Author
Publication Date
May 04, 2021
Genre / Grade Band
Fiction /  6th − 8th
Language
English
Faster: How a Jewish Driver, an American Heiress, and a Legendary Car Beat Hitler's Best

Description

Winner of the Motor Press Guild Best Book of the Year Award & Dean Batchelor Award for Excellence in Automotive Journalism. 

For fans of The Boys in the Boat and In the Garden of Beasts, a pulse-pounding tale of triumph by an improbable team of upstarts over Hitler's fearsome Silver Arrows during the golden age of auto racing As Nazi Germany launched its campaign of racial terror and pushed the world toward war, three unlikely heroes--a driver banned from the best European teams because of his Jewish heritage, the owner of a faltering automaker company, and the adventurous daughter of an American multimillionaire--banded together to challenge Hitler's dominance at the Grand Prix, the apex of motorsport. Bringing to life this glamorous era and the sport that defined it, Faster chronicles one of the most inspiring, death-defying upsets of all time: a symbolic blow against the Nazis during history's darkest hour.

Publication date
May 04, 2021
Genre
Fiction
ISBN-13
9780358508120
Publisher
Mariner Books
BISAC categories
HIS027100 - History | Military | World War II
SOC031000 - Social Science | Discrimination & Racism
HIS022000 - History | Jewish | General
TEC056000 - Technology & Engineering | History
HIS010000 - History | Europe | General
SPO028000 - Sports & Recreation | Motor Sports
SPO019000 - Sports & Recreation | History
TRA001050 - Transportation | Automotive | History
SPO066000 - Sports & Recreation | Cultural & Social Aspects
TEC009090 - Technology & Engineering | Automotive
Library of Congress categories
History
World War, 1939-1945
Social aspects
Automobile racing drivers
Automobile racing
Discrimination in sports
Grand Prix racing

Kirkus

A luminous book of sports history that explores a forgotten corner of the history of the Third Reich as well.
Neal Bascomb
NEAL BASCOMB is the award-winning and New York Times best-selling author of The Winter Fortress, Hunting Eichmann, and The Perfect Mile, among others. He lives in Philadelphia.