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

Author: Neal Bascomb

Narrator: Edoardo Ballerini

Unabridged: 9 hr 52 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 03/17/2020

Synopsis

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. 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. “[A] well-researched account of the 1938 Grand Prix in Pau, France … Excellent … [Bascomb] moves with the aplomb of an F1 driver who starts in the middle of the pack and works his way up, car by car, to take the lead … Exciting, fast-moving prose.”—Wall Street Journal 

Reviews

Goodreads review by Theresa on February 08, 2020

I will start by admitting I know absolutely nothing about car racing and I am not inclined to learn all about it. That being said, I really enjoyed this book by Neal Bascomb. Bascomb takes you to another time and place when racing was beginning to grow in Europe. He takes us into the lives of people......more

Goodreads review by Martin on December 10, 2019

Thanks HMH for the Advanced Copy - public service announcement - read anything by Neal Bascomb that you can get your hands on. Bascomb's, The Perfect Mile is one of the best books on sport ever written. His Winter Fortress is a fine journalistic history of a significant event in WWII history. This b......more

Goodreads review by Diane on January 03, 2020

Fantastic history of motor racing on the eve of the second world war. Absolutely loved all the detail of these heart-pounding races and the incredible characters that populated them, including badass Lucy Schell. I want to be her when I grow up!......more

Goodreads review by Alex on February 06, 2020

AWESOME Book from a great writer. Loved the narrative, the color, the drama...superb fun and very very engaging.......more

Goodreads review by John on September 18, 2021

This is an interesting book that presents a lot of historical background to the Grand Prix cars, races and drivers of the mid to late 1930's. I found the final race, the main theme of the book, to be overdramatic and anti-climactic. Bascomb is obviously not a motor sports writer. Still, if you are t......more

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