Thunder at Sunrise. A History of the Vanderbilt Cup, the Grand Prize and the Indianapolis 500, 1904-1916, Paperback - John M. Burns

On a bright October morning in 1904, thousands of people flocked to Nassau County on rural Long Island to witness the first international motor spo...

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The catastrophe which was The Great War forever altered the lives of everyone who was a part of the World War I generation. A century later, the me...

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