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by Wayne Biddle

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This illuminating story of the dawn of the space age reaches back to the reactionary modernism of the Third Reich, using the life of "rocket scientist" Wernher von Braun as its narrative path through the crumbling of Weimar Germany and the rise of the Nazi regime. Von Braun, a blinkered opportunist who could apply only tunnel vision to his meteoric career, stands as an archetype of myriad twentieth century technologists who thrived under regimes of military secrecy and unlimited money. His seamless transformation from developer of the deadly V-2 ballistic missile for Hitler to an American celebrity as the supposed genius behind the golden years of the U.S. space program in the 1950s and 1960s raises haunting questions about the culture of the Cold War, the shared values of technology in totalitarian and democratic societies, and the imperatives of material progress.

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  • Title Dark Side of the Moon: Wernher Von Braun, the Third Reich, and the Space Race
  • Author Wayne Biddle
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 240
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher W. W. Norton & Company, New York
  • Publication date 2009
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9780393059106 / 0393059103
  • Weight 0.95 lbs (0.43 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.6 x 6.6 x 1 in (24.38 x 16.76 x 2.54 cm)
  • Category Biography / Autobiography
  • Library of Congress subjects Germany - Politics and government - 1933-1945, Cold War
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2009015572
  • Dewey Decimal Code B
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