Description: This hardcover first edition of "In the Shadow of the Moon : America, Russia, and the Hidden History of the Space Race" by Amy Cherrix is flat signed by the author. You’ve heard of the space race, but do you know the whole story? The most ambitious race humankind has ever undertaken was masterminded in the shadows by two engineers on opposite sides of the Cold War: Wernher von Braun, a former Nazi officer living in the US, and Sergei Korolev, a Russian rocket designer once jailed for crimes against his country—and your textbooks probably never told you. These two brilliant but controversial rocketeers never met, yet together they reshaped spaceflight and warfare. From Stalin’s brutal gulags and Hitler’s concentration camps to Cape Canaveral and beyond, their simultaneous quests pushed science—and human ingenuity—to the breaking point. Von Braun became an American hero, recognized the world over, while Korolev toiled in obscurity. But as each of these men altered human history, they were eclipsed by their troubled pasts, living out their lives in the shadow of the same moon that drove them to such astonishing feats of scientific achievement. From Amy Cherrix comes the extraordinary hidden story of the space race and the bitter rivalry that took humankind to the moon. The book and dust jacket are in like new condition.
Price: 49.99 USD
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Signed By: Amy Cherrix
Book Title: In the Shadow of the Moon : America, Russia
Signed: Yes
Publisher: HarperCollins
Edition: First Edition
Publication Year: 2021
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Author: Amy Cherrix
Features: Dust Jacket
Genre: History, Astronaut, NASA, Space, War, Science, Politics
Topic: Biography & Autobiography / Science & Technology, History / Military & Wars, Technology / Aeronautics, Astronautics & Space Science, General
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
Number of Pages: 322 pages
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