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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
    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 Best

    Written by Neal Bascomb

    Narrated by Edoardo Ballerini

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    For fans of The Boys in the Boat and In the Garden of Beasts, a pulse-pounding tale of triumph over Hitler’s
    fearsome Silver Arrows during the golden age of auto racing.
    They were the unlikeliest of heroes. René Dreyfus, a former top driver on the international race car circuit,
    had been banned from the best 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 at 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.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRecorded Books, Inc.
    Release dateMar 17, 2020
    ISBN9781980006831
    Author

    Neal Bascomb

    NEAL BASCOMB is the national award–winning and New York Times best-selling author of The Winter Fortress, Hunting Eichmann, The Perfect Mile,Higher, The Nazi Hunters, and Red Mutiny, among others. A former international journalist, he is a widely recognized speaker on the subject of war and has appeared in a number of documentaries. He lives in Philadelphia. For more information, visit http://nealbascomb.com or find him on Twitter at @nealbascomb.  

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    • 4/5
      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.
    • 4/5
      Excellent narrative on the late 1930's Grand Prix racing scene in Europe. Mercedes and AutoUnion were government backed teams and dominated GP racing in that era just prior to WWII. Rene Dreyfus was a jewish racing car driver competing for Delahaye. A Jew racing against the two all conquering German teams sets the scene for a dramatic story. It is very interesting, very well researched and tells the tale of this extraordinary era and Bascomb does it justice.
    • 4/5
      The last fifth of this book is very good as it builds to the final race, the rest is cursory treatment of too many races and too many people. Still, not bad for understanding the racing scene in the 1920s and 30s, when racing as we know it was invented, this era was probably the pinnacle of the sport.
    • 5/5
      History is exciting. Especially when told as well Neal Bascomb told it here. The setting is Europe in the thirties. The subtitle tells, all the complexities of life then. At least as it effects the auto racing community and, really, how it effects people in it. Racers of what ever religion, or none, and of what ever connection to racing they have. Hitler didn't care about sport only the propaganda benefits there of. It all meshes in this book. The book reads as a great novel, but tells a true story. Even without a background in racing, I think most readers would have great pleasure reading this book. Students of auto racing this book, and then keep it near to hand for reading, again and again!
    • 4/5
      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.