Title The only woman in the room / Marie Benedict.

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Naperville, Illinois : Sourcebooks Landmark, [2019]

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Description	315 pages ; 21 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.
Subject	Antheil, George, 1900-1959 -- Fiction.
	Women inventors -- Fiction.
	Spread spectrum communications -- Fiction.
	Austria -- History -- 1918-1938 -- Fiction.
	Lamarr, Hedy, 1913-2000 -- Fiction.
	World War, 1939-1945 -- Fiction.
	Women scientists -- Fiction.
	Jewish women -- Fiction.
	Antheil, George, 1900-1959. (OCoLC)fst00048633
	Lamarr, Hedy, 1913-2000. (OCoLC)fst01427980
	Jewish women. (OCoLC)fst00983062
	Spread spectrum communications. (OCoLC)fst01130899
	Women inventors. (OCoLC)fst01178065
	Women scientists. (OCoLC)fst01178507
	Austria. (OCoLC)fst01204901
	World War (1939-1945) (OCoLC)fst01180924
Chronological Term	1918-1945
Genre/Form	Fiction. (OCoLC)fst01423787
	History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
	Historical fiction.
ISBN	9781492666899 (paperback)
	1492666890 (paperback)

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