In this authoritative biography of Wernher von Braun, chief rocket engineer of the Third Reich, Neufeld presents a man of profound moral complexities who has been glorified as a visionary and vilified as a war criminal, a man whose brilliance had been coupled with ambition.
Did we "know" the gas chambers were there? Could we have destroyed them? Why didn't we bomb? For decades, debate has raged over whether the Allies should have bombed the gas chambers at Auschwitz and the railroads leading to the camp, thereby saving thousands of lives and disrupting Nazi efforts to exterminate European Jews. Was it truly feasible ...
An extraordinary memoir by a survivor of the Nazi camps, Yves Bon, Planet Dora is a recollection of life and death in a concentration camp like no other. Dora was a cavernous underground factory designed to build the worlds first operational rockets: the V-1 and V-2 missiles, Hitlers vengeance weapons. In an account that reads like a nightmarish ...
The story behind one of the greatest engineering feats of World War II. The Rocket and the Reich is the paradoxical tale of the creation of a technology that would prove so valuable to Allied powers after the war but ultimately proved a failure to the Germans during it. Two 8-page photo inserts; 6 maps and diagrams.
Relates the story of the German development of missile technology, a new kind of warfare that was extremely valuable to Allied powers during the Cold War but of little value to the Germans during World War II.
An extraordinary memoir by a survivor of the Nazi camps, Yves Bon, Planet Dora is a recollection of life and death in a concentration camp like no other. Dora was a cavernous underground factory designed to build the worlds first operational rockets: the V-1 and V-2 missiles, Hitlers vengeance weapons. In an account that reads like a nightmarish ...
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