Von Braun: Dreamer of Space, Engineer of War-Fast Shipping

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Curator and space historian at the Smithsonian’s National Airand Space Museum delivers a brilliantly nuanced biography of controversial space pioneer Wernher von Braun.

Chief rocket engineer of the Third Reich and one of the fathers of the U.S. spaceprogram, Wernher von Braun is a source of consistent fascination. Glorified as avisionary 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 meticulouslyresearched 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 dreamsof the heavens and the earthbound realities of his life.