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Laddar... Faster: How a Jewish Driver, an American Heiress, and a Legendary Car Beat Hitler's Best (utgåvan 2020)av Neal Bascomb (Författare)
VerksinformationFaster: How a Jewish Driver, an American Heiress, and a Legendary Car Beat Hitler's Best av Neal Bascomb
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Gå med i LibraryThing för att få reda på om du skulle tycka om den här boken. Det finns inga diskussioner på LibraryThing om den här boken. Take this single star with a grain of salt. This is 100% not my genre nor in my realm of interest. Read it for book club and had a rough time. ( ) Simply put this is one of the best books on the early days of Grand Prix racing I’ve ever read. It provides a vivid and excellently told portrait of motor sports in the 1930s and how Grand Prix racing and record breaking were subsumed by nationalistic politics - notably the different approaches taken in France and Germany. But even if you have zero interest in motor sports I’d still recommend this as an absorbing human drama centered around the cadre of elite drivers, their relationships on-and off the track, and their insights into the risks they took. I'd been aware of the story of how Rene Dreyfus grabbed a shock victory off the German racing juggernaut in 1938 at the Pau Grand Prix for awhile (I remember seeing a documentary on it (probably on the much-missed "Speed" channel)), and have done my share of reading about racing in the period in general. What the author brings to the table is the story of Lucy Schell, the woman who gave Dreyfus his chance for glory, and a fine rally racer in her own right. Apart from that Bascomb appears to have covered all his bases (including getting input from the Dreyfus family), so this turns out to be a fine introduction to the subject for the general reader. inga recensioner | lägg till en recension
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"In the years before World War II, Adolf Hitler wanted to prove the greatness of the Third Reich in everything from track and field to motorsports. The Nazis poured money into the development of new race cars, and Mercedes-Benz came out with a stable of supercharged automobiles called Silver Arrows. Their drivers dominated the sensational world of European Grand Prix racing and saluted Hitler on their many returns home with victory. As the Third Reich stripped Jews of their rights and began their march toward war, one driver, René Dreyfus, a 32-year-old Frenchman of Jewish heritage who had enjoyed some early successes on the racing circuit, was barred from driving on any German or Italian race teams, which fielded the best in class, due to the rise of Hitler and Benito Mussolini. So it was that in 1937, Lucy Schell, an American heiress and top Monte Carlo Rally driver, needed a racer for a new team she was creating to take on Germany's Silver Arrows. Sensing untapped potential in Dreyfus, she funded the development of a nimble tiger of a new car built by a little-known French manufacturer called Delahaye. As the nations of Europe marched ever closer to war, Schell and Dreyfus faced down Hitler's top drivers, and the world held its breath in anticipation, waiting to see who would triumph"-- Inga biblioteksbeskrivningar kunde hittas. |
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