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

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Faster: How a Jewish Driver, an American Heiress, and a Legendary Car Beat Hitler's BestFor 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. They were the unlikeliest of heroes. Rene Dreyfus, a former top driver on the international racecar circuit, had been banned from the best European teams and fastest cars by the mid 1930s because of his Jewish heritage. Charles Weiffenbach, head of

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.

They were the unlikeliest of heroes. Rene Dreyfus, a former top driver on the international racecar circuit, had been banned from the best European teams--and fastest cars--by the mid-1930s because of his Jewish heritage. Charles Weiffenbach, head of the down-on-its-luck automaker Delahaye, was desperately trying to save his company as the world teetered toward the brink. And Lucy Schell, the adventurous daughter of an American multi-millionaire, yearned to reclaim the glory of her rally-driving days.

As Nazi Germany launched its campaign of racial terror and pushed the world toward war, these three misfits banded together to challenge Hitler's dominance at the apex of motorsport: the Grand Prix. Their quest for redemption culminated in a remarkable race that is still talked about in racing circles to this day--but which, soon after it ended, Hitler attempted to completely erase from history.

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.

Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Published: 03/17/2020
ISBN: 9781328489876
Pages: 368
Weight: 1.25lbs
Size: 9.10h x 5.90w x 1.50d

Review Citations: Kirkus Reviews 01/01/2020
Publishers Weekly 01/06/2020
Library Journal 01/24/2020 pg. 1
Booklist 02/01/2020 pg. 14
Foreword 02/26/2020
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