Von Braun - Michael J. Neufeld

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.