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Race to the Moon is the first book to trace the entire story of how America got to the moon before Communist Russia. The book opens with an appeal by President John F. Kennedy for winning the space race, then flashes back to World War II and traces the history of rocket development by the Germans, who were 25 years ahead of all other nations in rocket R&D! We're told of feuds among Nazi leaders about who will control the rocket program, the struggles of German space scientists to persuade Nazi leadership to invest in rocket research, and finally the hundreds of individual espionage efforts that went into smuggling information about this new technology out of the Reich and into the hands of British Intelligence. Also told is the story of the German scientists who were smuggled to the United States--to develop the rocket program that would propel the U.S. to the moon before the Soviets.
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"Race to the Moon" traces the story of how America got to the moon before Communist Russia. The book opens with an appeal by President John F. Kennedy for winning the space race, then flashes back to World War II and traces the history of rocket development by the Germans, who were 25 years ahead of all other nations in rocket R&D. The book tells of feuds among Nazi leaders about who should control the rocket programme, the struggles of German space scientists to persuade Nazi leadership to invest in rocket research, and, finally, the hundreds of individual espionage efforts that went into smuggling information about this new technology out of the Reich and into the hands of British Intelligence. Breuer tells of how young US army officers discovered an underground cache of long-range rockets toward the end of the war and managed to "sneak" them to America. These same young Americans (and others) mounted a Germany-wide search for rocket scientists, and managed to locate 200 of them, offer them contracts, and bring them and their families to the United States under top-secret security. These German scientists, headed by 31-year-old Wernher von Braun, led America's rocket research and development during the Cold War and finally took NASA to a triumphant moon landing.
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- EditorePraeger Pub Text
- Data di pubblicazione1993
- ISBN 10 0275944816
- ISBN 13 9780275944810
- RilegaturaCopertina rigida
- Numero di pagine222
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Descrizione libro Hardcover. Condizione: new. Hardcover. Race to the Moon is a suspenseful thriller about the 30-year clash between the United States and the Soviet Union to be the first to put a man on the moon. This true account is heavy with intrigue, espionage, and controversy. Beginning with a 1961 pledge by President John F. Kennedy to plant the Stars and Stripes on the lunar surface by the end of the decade, the story flashes back to the first days of World War II. At that time, England was tipped off by a high Nazi official that the Third Reich was developing revolutionary long-range rockets.This same source clandestinely provided documents that shocked British scientists: The Germans were 25 years ahead of England and the United States in rocket development! And then, in September 1944, 60-foot-long V-2 rockets, for which there was no defense, began raining down on London, causing enormous destruction and loss of life. Even while the fighting was still raging in Germany in the spring of 1945, a handful of young U.S. Army officers scored a colossal coup: They connived to steal 100 of the huge V-2s that had been found in an underground factory. They were dismantled and slipped by train out of Germany, destination White Sands, New Mexico. Then began a no-holds-barred search for German rocket scientists in the chaos of a defeated Third Reich, with the Americans and British on one side and the Russians on the other. Within weeks of the close of the war, Wernher von Braun and 126 of his rocket team members were corraled, shipped to the United States, and began working secretly on missile development. At the same time, the Soviets literally kidnapped other German rocket scientists and sent them to Russia to continue their space work. In the years ahead, Wernher von Braun and his German rocket team, nearly all of whom became naturalized citizens of the United States, collaborated with American scientists to overcome enormous space achievements by the Soviets--and bungling by Washington politicians--to send Neil Armstrong scampering about on the moon in 1969. In the years ahead, Wernher von Braun and his German rocket team, nearly all of whom became naturalized citizens of the United States, collaborated with American scientists to overcome enormous space achievements by the Soviets--and bungling by Washington politicians--to send Neil Armstrong scampering about on the moon in 1969. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Codice articolo 9780275944810
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