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Von Braun: Dreamer of Space, Engineer of War Reprint edition
Michael Neufeld
Von Braun: Dreamer of Space, Engineer of War Reprint edition
Michael Neufeld
Michael J. Neufeld, curator and space historian at the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum, delivers a brilliantly nuanced biography of Wernher von Braun.
Chief rocket engineer of the Third Reich and one of the fathers of the U. S. space program, Wernher von Braun is a source of consistent fascination. Glorified as a visionary and vilified as a war criminal, he was a man of profound moral complexities, whose intelligence and charisma were coupled with an enormous and, some would say, blinding ambition. Based on new sources, Neufeld's biography delivers a meticulously researched and authoritative portrait of the creator of the V-2 rocket and his times, detailing how he was a man caught between morality and progress, between his dreams of the heavens and the earthbound realities of his life.
624 pages
Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
Released | November 11, 2008 |
ISBN13 | 9780307389374 |
Publishers | Random House USA Inc |
Pages | 624 |
Dimensions | 235 × 156 × 37 mm · 652 g |
Language | English |
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