Dark side of the moon : Wernher von Braun, the Third Reich, and the space race / Wayne Biddle.
Dark side of the moon : Wernher von Braun, the Third Reich, and the space race / Wayne Biddle.
Dark side of the moon : Wernher von Braun, the Third Reich, and the space race / Wayne Biddle.
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Publisher
New York : W.W. Norton, c2009.
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N629.4092/7
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Language
English
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Physical content
xiv, 220 p., [8] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
Contents
A junker's life -- Memories of deeat -- "Highly technological romanticism" -- An heir of credibility -- Childhood's end -- "Fingers in the pie" -- Supreme zeal -- Grand and horribly wrong -- Depravity -- " A psychologicsal block".
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Publisher
New York : W.W. Norton, c2009.
Edition
1st ed.
Place of Publication
New York (State)
Date Published
c2009.
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Summary
A stunning investigation of the roots of the first moon landing forty years ago, this illuminating story of the dawn of the space age reaches back to the reactionary modernism of the Third Reich, using the life of "rocket scientist" Wernher von Braun as its narrative path through the crumbling of Weimar Germany and the rise of the Nazi regime. Von...
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Dark side of the moon : Wernher von Braun, the Third Reich, and the space race / Wayne Biddle.
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Includes bibliographical references p. 199-204) and index.
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c2009.
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N629.4092/7
Record Identifier
74Vv8wp0zyEb
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74Vv8wp0zyEb
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ISBN
9780393059106 (hardcover)
0393059103 (hardcover)
DDC
629.4092 B
MMS ID
991014064139702626
