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The Last British Hero: The Mysterious Death of Grand Prix Legend Richard Seaman
The Last British Hero The Mysterious Death of Grand Prix Legend Richard Seaman Author:Phil Shirley Richard Seaman was one of Europe's leading racing drivers in the 1930s. A cocky, flamboyant daredevil in the world of Grand Prix racing, and a covert operator working for the British government on the eve of World War II, Seaman was respected by Adolf Hitler?and the target of a vendetta by Nazi Germany's most feared killers, the Gestapo. This vo... more »lume exposes the connections between Seaman, Hitler's legendary Mercedes racing team, the Gestapo, the British Secret Service, and the Nazi doctor who murdered Seaman following a horrific crash during the 1939 Belgium Grand Prix. Sixty years after the British government declared his death "a tragic accident," evidence about the attempted cover-up of the truth behind Seaman's fate is revealed along with details of the bitter love triangle involving Seaman's young wife and a Nazi officer, Seaman's mother's affair with Hitler's foreign minister Joachim Ribbentrop, and the wild, drug-fuelled lives of the 1930s racing crowd.« less