Faster
How a Jewish Driver, an American Heiress, and a Legendary Car Beat Hitler's Best
HarperCollins · Print & ebook · May 4, 2021
Winner of the Motor Press Guild Best Book of the Year Award & Dean Batchelor Award for Excellence in Automotive Journalism 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 As Nazi Germany launched its campaign of racial terror and pushed the world toward war, three unlikely heroes—a driver banned from the best European teams because of his Jewish heritage, the owner of a faltering automaker company, and the adventurous daughter of an American multimillionaire—banded together to challenge Hitler’s dominance at the Grand Prix, the apex of motorsport.
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- Who it’s for
- A glamorous age of Grand Prix racing meets a high-stakes challenge to Nazi dominance.
- Themes
- Grand Prix racing, Antisemitism and exclusion, Resistance to Nazism
- Pacing
- Fast
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Winner of the Motor Press Guild Best Book of the Year Award & Dean Batchelor Award for Excellence in Automotive Journalism 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 As Nazi Germany launched its campaign of racial terror and pushed the world toward war, three unlikely heroes—a driver banned from the best European teams because of his Jewish heritage, the owner of a faltering automaker company, and the adventurous daughter of an American multimillionaire—banded together to challenge Hitler’s dominance at the Grand Prix, the apex of motorsport.
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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.
Racing Against History
A glamorous age of Grand Prix racing meets a high-stakes challenge to Nazi dominance.
Come here for
- Auto racing with history’s darker stakes in view
- An underdog contest involving a Jewish driver and an American heiress
Expect
- A dramatic account of an upset at the Grand Prix
- Motorsport’s golden age set against the approach of war
Where it sits
| Auto Racing | 65% |
|---|---|
| Sports Lives | 50% |
| World War II: European Theater | 48% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Sports Lives
- German History
- Jewish History
- World War II History
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- 20th-Century History
- Social History
- Sports History
- Motor Sports
- Authors
- Neal Bascomb
- Publisher
- HarperCollins
- Published
- May 4, 2021
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Theme
- Grand Prix racing · Antisemitism and exclusion · Resistance to Nazism
- Reading lane
- Sports Lives