Faster: How A Jewish Driver, an Ameerican Heiress, and a Legendary Car Beat Hitler's Best
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2020. First edition. Hardcover. Fine, fresh, unread copy in equally fine dust jacket. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Blueprint illustrated endpaers, xxiii+ 344 pp. with index, bibliography. Illustrated. Most people know the story of the 1936 Berlin Olympics, with Jesse Owens triumphs and Hitler's anger at the results. Far less known is this fascinating tale of Grand Prix driver Rene Dreyfus, whose French-Jewish heritage prevented him from driving for German teams. The Nazis saw Grand Prix motor racing as a metaphor for war and even nationalizing the Mercedes-Benz and Auto-Union racing teams. Dreyfus had to compete using inferior machines but in the late 1930s teamed up eith Charles Weiffenbach, a down-on-his luck automaker producing the Delahaye, and Lucy Schell, the adventurous daughter of an American millionaire who yearned to reclaim the glory of her rally-driving days. When Dreyfus defeated German automobiles and drivers , Hitler all but erased the story of the races. Fine / fine. Item #E27853
ISBN: 9781328489876
Price: $17.95