lucy shell, daughter of multimillionaire to reclaim glory of her driving days. these 3 misfits, banded together to challenge hitler's dominance at at the apex of motor sports. the quest for redemption culminated in race that is still talked about today and soon after ended hitler attempted to completely erase from history bring to go light glamorous era and symbolic blow against the nazis during history's darkest hour. michelle, new york's best author and 13 hours says it's a full-thought throttle reminder of heros to inspire us in dark times. neil bascomb has brought done everything to challenge evil. sports, politics and human passion collide in this book. bringing excitement of motor racing onto page but it succeeds hugely. victory over the nazis is a victory for us all. and tonight neal bascomb is award-winning author of the winter portrait, the perfect mile among others and he grew up in st. louis, welcome from afar and now i would like to bring in neal into the conversation and so if you all where you're watching could give a round of applause for neal bas

you see the danica patrick's of today, they have their presence in many ways to lucy shell.to her sort of calm lottery of women who decide everything -- defy everything to do with love, racecars. again, i won't be the one doing it, if anyone is out there listening, there is a great book tv written about these early speed queens. i strongly recommend someone do it. >> host: they won separate awards but they were racing at the same time as the male drivers? is that correct? or what? >> guest: depends on the race. in the grand prix itself, the grand prix to put in present day language is like formula one racing. there's a set dictate on the kind of car you can have, set race, and women were not involved in that, in the 1930s. separately from that though, there was all kinds of different sports car races. there were rally races, races 3000 miles from one point to the next. get there as quick as you can. as well as races like in italy, 1000 miles, or labonte's, other races like that. they're all kinds of different races that inter- mixed men and women. lucy drove, partnered with

lucy was. ready to get the. gist of things. i think ron to china will hand gate and the saudis are trying to destruct the american shell industry all my god imagine that they're trying to disrupt the american shell industry. the world is driven by. no dares thinks. we dare to ask. you to go with me yet you will. thousands of american men and women choose to serve in their country's military and the decision little sheltered lives every thing came to a complete. the day that i was raped albeit strokin if you know told to shut up or they'd kill me and i see how destroyed my life any screamed at me and he made me come in the gram my arm and he write me with his birth ink area if you take into account that women don't report because of the extreme retaliation and it's probably somewhere near about half a 1000000 women have now been sexually assaulted in the us military rape is a very very traumatizing thing to have happen but i've never seen trauma like i've seen from women who are veterans who have suffered military sexual trauma reporting rape is more likely to get the victim punished don't be offended i had an almost 20 year car