Von Braun: Dreamer of Space, Engineer of War

Curator and space historian at the Smithsonian's National Air and 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. 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.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 11/11/2008
ISBN: 9780307389374
Pages: 624
Weight: 1.73lbs
Size: 9.16h x 6.18w x 1.24d

Review Citations: New York Times Book Review 12/14/2008 pg. 24