Rosemeyer! A New Biography

Even today, over fifty years after his death, the very name is enough to excite motor racing enthusiasts around the world, young and old alike, for Bernd Rosemeyer was one of the most gifted and charismatic drivers ever to grace the sport. Roserneyer! Is the fascinating story of two remarkable people, but principally it is about the phenomenon that was the young man from Lingen, in Germany, who became European Champion in only his second season of motor racing and who, in just three years, wrote himself indelibly into the pages of Grand Prix history. This book is a new, enlarged version of the biography which was written by his widow, Elly Beinhorn Rosemeyer, in the months following his tragic death in a record attempt on January 28, 1938. Working with Frau Rosemeyer, the English writer Chris Nixon has added a lot more information and two new chapters. The first deals with her early flying career when as, Elly Beinhorn, she made a very considerable name for herself, with solo flights through Africa and the Americas and around the world. The second covers the youth and early motorcycle racing career of the man she was to marry - Bernd Rosemeyer. Illustrated with over seventy five photographs - many not seen before - Rosemeyer! Will stand among the finest sporting biographies ever written.