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Racing the Silver Arrows: Mercedes-Benz Versus Auto Union 1934-1939
  

Racing the Silver Arrows: Mercedes-Benz Versus Auto Union 1934-1939 (Hardcover)

by Chris Nixon (Author)
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  • Hardcover: 352 pages
  • Publisher: Transport Bookman Publications; New edition edition (Mar 1997)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0851840558
  • ISBN-13: 978-0851840550
  • Product Dimensions: 28.4 x 22.2 x 3.4 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 368,058 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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This is a history of the epic battles in the 1930s between the supercharged Grand Prix cars of Mercedes-Benz and Auto Union. The picture book presents a comprehensive portrait of the golden age of motor racing.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Far more than just another book on motor racing, 10 April 2001
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Racing the Silver Arrows is a truly comprehensive chronicle of the triumphs, tragedies, heroism and humanity surrounding the Auto Union and Mercedes Benz Grand Prix teams in their 1934-39 golden age. Chris Nixon writes with an engaging blend of enthusiasm and authority, focusing primarily on the human stories behind the petrol fumes and statistics - stories from both on and off the race tracks. We find retold here many marvellous human dramas, of love, rivalry, high jinks, death, chutzpah and above all heroism. Inevitably the 'story' jumps around rather, but never palls and is further brought alive by a wonderful collection of photographs and a set of neatly captured memoirs from some of the survivors. Not normally given to such gestures, the book moved me recently to make a tour of some of the key historic sites of the era through Switzerland and Germany (I was *sort of* passing through the neighbourhood anyway...). A truly inspirational book for anyone with the slightest interest in motor sport, or in heroism of any kind.
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5.0 out of 5 stars We named them "The Titans"., 29 Aug 2000
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For all those who remember, each era can now be called a golden age of motor sports. The 50's with Fangio, Moss, Hawthorn, Ascari, and the last of the front engine race cars, dueling on their narrow wire wheels and hard tires. Then the 60's and the new rear engine machines which foretold of the rise of the English racing empire, Lola, Lotus, Brabham, McLaren. On to the aerodynamic revolution in the 70's, the Turbo 80's and to the dollars driven 90's. All can be Golden if you wish it. But none can be called an age of Titans. Chris Nixon has brough this era of Titans, these men who were both charming and brave souls, too life in his book as no one has before and their personalities are what shine through. He gives us first hand interviews with many of the charters who were at the center of this drama. A drama which was played out against a backdrop of potitical intrigue, one that was destined to change the world. And yet here these men and their machines stood out amid the darkening skies of the brewing storm. Not because the stood fore or against the Nazis, but in spite of them, and we see that their stars burned bright. We may never get closer to these Titans than we do in this book, but to read it made me feel as though I have stood in their shadows. A golden age indeed.
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