VON BRAUN: DREAMER OF SPACE, ENGINEER OF WAR

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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.

ALTRE INFORMAZIONI

• Condizione: Nuovo
• ISBN: 9780307389374
• Collana: Vintage
• Dimensioni: 9.50 x 6.25 x 1.50 inch.
• Formato: Paperback
• Pagine Arabe: 587