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The only woman in the room / Marie Benedict.

The only woman in the room / Marie Benedict.
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 Adult Fiction   Earlwood . . On Loan . 16 Jun 2024
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ISBN 9781529325416 (paperback)
Name Benedict, Marie author.
Title The only woman in the room / Marie Benedict.
Published London : Hodder & Stoughton, 2019.
©2019.
Description 247 pages ; 24 cm
Summary Hedy Kiesler is lucky. Her beauty leads to a starring role in a controversial film and marriage to a powerful Austrian arms dealer, allowing her to evade Nazi persecution despite her Jewish heritage. But Hedy is also intelligent. At lavish Vienna dinner parties, she overhears the Third Reich's plans. One night in 1937, desperate to escape her controlling husband and the rise of the Nazis, she disguises herself and flees her husband's castle. She lands in Hollywood, where she becomes Hedy Lamarr, screen star. But Hedy is keeping a secret even more shocking than her Jewish heritage: she is a scientist. She has an idea that might help the country and that might ease her guilt for escaping alone -- if anyone will listen to her. Based on the incredible true story of the glamour icon and scientist whose groundbreaking invention revolutionized modern communication.
Subjects Lamarr, Hedy, -- 1913-2000 -- Fiction
Antheil, George, -- 1900-1959 -- Fiction
World War, 1939-1945 -- Fiction
Women scientists -- Fiction
Women inventors -- Fiction
Jewish women -- Fiction
Spread spectrum communications -- Fiction
World War, 1939-1945 -- Fiction
Austria -- History -- 1918-1938 -- Fiction
Genre Biographical fiction
Historical fiction
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