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by Dennis Piszkiewicz

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Perhaps no one in history has played the role of scientist as celebrity with as much skill--and as much deception--as Wernher von Braun. America's leading rocket expert and most enthusiastic advocate of space travel, he had a closet full of secrets that would have shocked his colleagues and millions of admirers if they had been told during his lifetime. Wernher von Braun: The Man Who Sold the Moon is the first critical biography of the young German aristocrat who created Hitler's most advanced terror weapon, the V-2 rocket, and who came to the U.S. under the Army's Project Paperclip to develop missiles as a central weapon of the Cold War. The book reveals that factions of the U.S. Army, in their zeal to have von Braun's team of scientists working for American interests, covered up what they knew about his complicity in Nazi causes and abetted him in the perpetuation of the myth he carefully created about his past.

Declassified Army documents and war crime transcripts, as well as the discovery of Europe of Dora concentration camp survivors' accounts, and von Braun's published writings and personal papers, have enabled biographer Dennis Piszkiewicz to document von Braun's career more fully than any previous historian. The man who tirelessly promoted space travel, worked with NASA to collaborate with Walt Disney creating television programs and the Tomorrowland section of Disneyland, and put the first astronauts on the moon, was actually a member of the Nazi party, held a rank in the SS equivalent to that of Major, and was an accomplice in the use of slave labor from the Dora concentration camp to produce his V-2 rocket. When the Third Reich collapsed, von Braun unashamedly switched his allegiance to the victor, and adroitly distanced himself from his Nazi partners. By going on to promote NASA and sell the American people on his dreams of space exploration, he became the man who sold the moon--a man who began his brilliant career by selling his soul to the Nazis.

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  • Title Wernher Von Braun: The Man Who Sold the Moon
  • Author Dennis Piszkiewicz
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 288
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Praeger, Westport, CT
  • Publication date 1998-11-30
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Dust Cover, Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9780275962173 / 0275962172
  • Weight 1.49 lbs (0.68 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.54 x 6.44 x 1.01 in (24.23 x 16.36 x 2.57 cm)
  • Reading level 1460
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 20th Century
    • Ethnic Orientation: German
  • Category Biography / Autobiography
  • Library of Congress subjects Rocketry - Germany - Biography, Von Braun, Wernher
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 98014481
  • Dewey Decimal Code B

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  • Publishers Weekly, 10/26/1998, Page 56

About the author

DENNIS PISZKIEWICZ has been an enthusiast of space exploration since his childhood in the 1950s. He has taught college-level chemistry and biochemistry and has been the recipient of a NASA fellowship. His interest in the history of science and technology inspired him to write The Nazi Rocketeers: Dreams of Space and Crimes of War (1995) and From Nazi Test Pilot to Hitler's Bunker: The Fantastic Flights of Hanna Reitsch (1997), both published by Praeger.

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