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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Bascomb, Neal, author.     Subjects     Automobile racing -- History -- Juvenile literature.     Automobile racing drivers -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.     Grand Prix racing -- History -- Juvenile literature.     Discrimination in sports -- History -- Juvenile literature.     World War, 1939-1945 -- Social aspects -- Juvenile literature.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Bascomb, Neal, author.       by title:      The racers : how an ...         MARC Display

The racers : how an outcast driver, an American heiress, and a legendary car challenged Hitler's best / Neal Bascomb. by Bascomb, Neal, author. New York : Scholastic Focus, 2020. Subjects Automobile racing -- History -- Juvenile literature.   Automobile racing drivers -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.   Grand Prix racing -- History -- Juvenile literature.   Discrimination in sports -- History -- Juvenile literature.   World War, 1939-1945 -- Social aspects -- Juvenile literature. ISBN:  9781338277418 (hardcover) 1338277413 (hardcover) Description:  xii, 323 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm Edition:  First edition. Requests:  0 Summary:  "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.   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Aina Haina Public Library YA -- Nonfiction 796.7209 Ba Checked In Add Copy to MyList Hawaii State Library YA -- Nonfiction 796.7209 Ba Checked In Add Copy to MyList Mountain View P/S Library YA -- Nonfiction 796.7209 Ba Checked In Add Copy to MyList

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