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Author: William B. Breuer
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Imprint: Praeger Publishers Inc
Dimensions:
Width: 15.60cm
, Height: 2.70cm
, Length: 23.50cm
Weight: 0.624kg
ISBN: 9780275944810
ISBN 10: 0275944816
Pages: 232
Publication Date: 27 July 1993
Recommended Age: From 7 to 17 years
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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General/trade
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Professional & Vocational
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General
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Manufactured on demand
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Reviews
?The latest of Breuer's well-written books is more like his espionage histories-Hoodwinking Hitler, for instance-than like his more numerous battle and campaign narratives. Using abundant primary and secondary sources, many recently declassified, Breuer unfolds and engrossing narrative that will make space advocates weep with frustration when they see how much faster and farther we could have gone in laying the foundations of a permanent American space effort.?-Booklist
The latest of Breuer's well-written books is more like his espionage histories-Hoodwinking Hitler, for instance-than like his more numerous battle and campaign narratives. Using abundant primary and secondary sources, many recently declassified, Breuer unfolds and engrossing narrative that will make space advocates weep with frustration when they see how much faster and farther we could have gone in laying the foundations of a permanent American space effort. -Booklist Another smasher by Breuer, who specializes in thrilling reports of WW II spycraft and warfare. . . . Crackerjack war adventures--and, in this case, the moon's the limit. -Kirkus Reviews Highly recommended. General community college; undergraduate; pre-professional. -Choice His military perspective serves him well in the chapters tracing the V-2's development history, the Allies' undercover espionage and overt military efforts to neutralize the weapon, and the fateful decision by von Braun's team to seek out and surrender to the Allies to avoid capture by the Soviets in the waning days of the war. -Library Journal ?Highly recommended. General community college; undergraduate; pre-professional.?-Choice ?Another smasher by Breuer, who specializes in thrilling reports of WW II spycraft and warfare. . . . Crackerjack war adventures--and, in this case, the moon's the limit.?-Kirkus Reviews ?The latest of Breuer's well-written books is more like his espionage histories-Hoodwinking Hitler, for instance-than like his more numerous battle and campaign narratives. Using abundant primary and secondary sources, many recently declassified, Breuer unfolds and engrossing narrative that will make space advocates weep with frustration when they see how much faster and farther we could have gone in laying the foundations of a permanent American space effort.?-Booklist ?His military perspective serves him well in the chapters tracing the V-2's development history, the Allies' undercover espionage and overt military efforts to neutralize the weapon, and the fateful decision by von Braun's team to seek out and surrender to the Allies to avoid capture by the Soviets in the waning days of the war.?-Library Journal
Another smasher by Breuer, who specializes in thrilling reports of WW II spycraft and warfare (Geronimo!, Sea Wolf, Hitler's Undercover War - all 1989, etc.). World War II? What docs that have to do with the moon? Quite a lot, especially in Breuer's version: Fully half of his text is a dramatic account of German rocketry in 1939-45, when Nazi scientists, led by the young and brilliant Wernher von Braun, developed the V-1 buzz bombs and V-2 rockets that rained terror in the skies of England. Plots and counterplots abound as the Nazis set up their missile shop in Peenemunde and the Allies try to knock it down (at one point launching 4000 airmen and nearly the entire British air force in a massive raid), while von Braun, who dreams of extraterrestrial travel, complains that his rockets are landing on the wrong planet. Himmler arrests von Braun; Speer frees him; Hitler goofs by aiming V-2s at London instead of port cities; as the Third Reich collapses, von Braun and 150 engineers surrender to bewildered GIs, explaining that they want to help America land on the moon. Meanwhile, Stalin's troops pull off the most far-reaching and bizarre mass kidnapping in 20th century Europe, sealing entire cities and combing them for rocket experts (20,000 fall into the net) to ship to Mother Russia. The space race is on. Breuer runs professionally through the postwar decades, from early White Sands testing to Armstrong's boots in the lunar dust, but this part of the story has been told before (although Breuer confirms that von Braun was ready to launch a satellite months before Sputnik put egg on our face, but was blocked by military squabbling). Crackerjack war adventures - and, in this case, the moon's the limit. (Kirkus Reviews)
Author Information
WILLIAM B. BREUER landed with the first assault waves in Normandy on D-Day, then fought across Europe. Later, he founded a daily newspaper in Rolla, Missouri, and after that, a highly successful public relations firm in St. Louis. He has been writing books full time since 1982, twelve of which are now in paperback, and eight of which have become main selections of the Military Book Club.
