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During the inter-war years, automobile racing was an extremely popular sport in Europe. The races, which were spectacular and often lethal, attracted tens — if not hundreds — of thousands of fans. In two volumes, ‘Rudi’ and ‘Bernd,’ Grand Prix retraces the history of this sport and its milieu during the years leading up to the Second World War… and how Hitler exploited the sport for his own propaganda purposes. It’s a tale full of action, danger, romanticism, humor, adultery, exotic journeys, liquor, drugs and melancholy. All this during a time of hope, of deprivation, of expectation, of heedlessness, and of a growing menace. A time when people simply lived from day to day, always keeping up their hopes that tomorrow would come.