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Title The only woman in the room / Marie Benedict
Imprint Naperville, Illinois : Sourcebooks Landmark, [2019]
©2019

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Descript 254 pages ; 24 cm
Note "A novel"--Dust jacket
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
Subject Lamarr, Hedy, 1913-2000 -- Fiction
Antheil, George, 1900-1959 -- Fiction
Lamarr, Hedy, 1913-2000 -- Fiction.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Fiction
Women scientists -- Fiction
Women inventors -- Fiction
Jewish women -- Fiction
Spread spectrum communications -- Fiction
FICTION -- Biographical.
FICTION -- Historical -- World War II.
FICTION -- Literary.
FICTION -- Women.
Andra världskriget 1939-1945
Kvinnliga uppfinnare
Judiska kvinnor
Austria -- History -- 1918-1938 -- Fiction
Österrike
Biographical fiction.
Historical fiction.
Romaner
Classmark 813.6
FIC041000 FIC014050 FIC019000 FIC044000
ISBN/ISSN 9781492666868 (hardcover ; acidfree paper)
1492666866 (hardcover ; acidfree paper)
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