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Race to the Moon : America's Duel with the Soviets
Race to the Moon America's Duel with the Soviets Author:William B. Breuer Race to the Moon is the first book to trace the entire story of how America got to the moon before Communist Russia. The book opens with an appeal by President John F. Kennedy for winning the space race, then flashes back to World War II and traces the history of rocket development by the Germans, who were 25 years ahead of all other nations in ... more »rocket R&D! We're told of feuds among Nazi leaders about who will control the rocket program, the struggles of German space scientists to persuade Nazi leadership to invest in rocket research, and finally the hundreds of individual espionage efforts that went into smuggling information about this new technology out of the Reich and into the hands of British Intelligence. Also told is the story of the German scientists who were smuggled to the United States--to develop the rocket program that would propel the U.S. to the moon before the Soviets.« less