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

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/422919 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Faster: How a Jewish Driver, an American Heiress, and a Legendary Car Beat Hitler's Best Author: Neal Bascomb Narrator: Edoardo Ballerini Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 53 minutes Release date: March 17, 2020 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.4 of Total 35 Ratings of Narrator: 4.91 of Total 11 Genres: Military Publisher's Summary: For fans of The Boys in the Boat and In the Garden of Beasts, a pulse-pounding tale of triumph over Hitler’sfearsome 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. CharlesWeiffenbach, head of the down-on-its-luck automaker Delahaye, was desperately trying to save his company as theworld teetered at the brink. And Lucy Schell, the adventurous daughter of an American multi-millionaire, yearned toreclaim the glory of her rally-driving days.As Nazi Germany launched its campaign of racial terror and pushed the world toward war, these three misfitsbanded together to challenge Hitler’s dominance at the apex of motorsport: the Grand Prix. Their quest for redemptionculminated 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 duringhistory’s darkest hour.