In 1939, with war in Europe looming on the horizon, Nazi Germans sought their own victory on the Isle of Man TT's Mountain Course.

Now, a new book by local author and journalist Roger Willis investigates this little-known episode of TT history. 'The Nazi TT: Hitler's 1939 Propaganda Victory on the Isle of Man' explores the controversial political context surrounding the Senior race win of Georg('Schorsch') Meier for BMW.

Willis, a seasoned motorcyling journalist and former editor of Bike magazine, trains the spotlight on this sporting victory and shows how it was wielded by Hitler's Government as a demonstration of German superiority.

Publishers Motobusiness say 'Seventy years ago, a disciplined force of Nazi NSKK paramilitary stormtroopers and regular Wehrmacht soldiers invaded the Isle of Man to seek victory in the world's toughest motorcycle races.

Full-scale war against Germany was only three months away and the Third Reich's Fuhrer Adolf Hitler was determined to teach Britain a sharp lesson in Aryan supremacy before the guns began to fire in earnest.

'In The Nazi TT, Roger Willis has blended a unique cocktail of politics, history and high-octane bike racing. His book explains how Hitler's henchmen turned German motorcycle sport into a paramilitarised adjunct to the Nazi Party's evil ideology during the 1930s and tested their might on the TT Mountain Course.

'It reveals who the racers and their Nazi puppet-masters on the Island in 1939 actually were, what they achieved and what happened to them afterwards. You just couldn't make this stuff up.'

The 104-page illlustrated soft-back will be available for sale in all good bookshops, priced ?10.99, from 18th May 2009.