A Race with Love and Death

<B>'A tragic age and a tragic character, both seemingly compelled to destroy themselves...a chilling reminder of how little control we have over our fates' Damon Hill<BR/>'One of the greatest motor racing stories' Nick Mason<BR/>'Timely, vivid and enthralling … it’s unputdownable’ Miranda Seymour, author of <I>The Bugatti Queen</I></B><BR/><BR/><B>Dick Seaman was the archetypal dashing motorsport hero of the 1930s, the first Englishman to win a race for Mercedes-Benz and the last Grand Prix driver to die at the wheel before the outbreak of the Second World War. </B><BR/> <BR/><B>Award-winning author Richard Williams</B> reveals the remarkable but now forgotten story of a driver whose battles against the leading figures of motor racing's golden age inspired the post-war generation of British champions. The son of wealthy parents, educated at Rugby and Cambridge, Seaman grew up in a privileged w