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The racers : how an outcast driver, an American heiress, and a legendary car challenged Hitler's best Cover Image Book

The racers : how an outcast driver, an American heiress, and a legendary car challenged Hitler's best / Neal Bascomb.

Bascomb, Neal, (author.).

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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"-- Provided by publisher

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781338277418
  • ISBN: 1338277413
  • Physical Description: xii, 323 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
  • Edition: First edition
  • Publisher: New York : Scholastic Focus, an imprint of Scholastic Inc., 2020.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-286) and index.
Target Audience Note:
Ages 12 and up. Scholastic Focus.
Grades 10-12. Scholastic Focus.
1090L Lexile
Study Program Information Note:
Accelerated Reader AR MG+ 7.7 9 510222.

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Dreyfus, René.
Schell, Lucy.
Automobile racing > Europe > History > 20th century > Biography.
Automobile racing drivers > Europe > 20th century.
Grand Prix racing > History > 20th century.
Antisemitism in sports > Europe > History.
Genre:
Young adult literature.
Biographies.
Young adult literature.

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