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050 00 TL781.85.V6 |bB53 2009
100 1  Biddle, Wayne.
245 10 Dark side of the moon : |bWernher von Braun, the Third Reich, and the space race / |cWayne Biddle.
250    First edition.
264  1 New York : |bW.W. Norton, |c[2009]
264  4  |c©2009
300    xiv, 220 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : |billustrations, maps ; |c25 cm
336    text |btxt |2rdacontent
337    unmediated |bn |2rdamedia
338    volume |bnc |2rdacarrier
504    Includes bibliographical references pages 199-204) and index.
505 0  A junker's life -- Memories of deeat -- "Highly technological romanticism" -- An heir of credibility -- Childhood's end -- "Fingers in the pie" -- Supreme zeal -- Grand and horribly wrong -- Depravity -- " A psychologicsal block".
520    A stunning investigation of the roots of the first moon landing forty years ago, 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 V2 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.
591    Record updated by Marcive processing 21 June 2024
600 10 Von Braun, Wernher, |d1912-1977.
650  0 Rocketry |zGermany |vBiography.
650  0 Rocketry |zUnited States |vBiography.
650  0 World War, 1939-1945 |xScience.
650  0 Space race |zUnited States |xHistory |y20th century.
650  0 Astronautics |zUnited States |vBiography.
650  0 Astronautics |xMoral and ethical aspects.
650  0 Cold War.
651  0 Germany |xPolitics and government |y1933-1945.
655  7 Biographies. |2lcgft
852 0   |bstacks |hTL781.85.V6 |iB53 2009