The Nazi Rocketeers

Author : Dennis Piszkiewicz
Publisher : Stackpole Books
ISBN 13 : 9780811733878
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Nazi Rocketeers written by Dennis Piszkiewicz and published by Stackpole Books. This book was released on 2007 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes how Hermann Oberth, Wernher von Braun, and their colleagues progressed, from the innocent dream of the V-2 ballistic missile, to the transfer of their technological legacy to the Americans.

Author : Monique Laney
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300198035
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book German Rocketeers in the Heart of Dixie written by Monique Laney and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2015-01-01 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This thought-provoking study by historian Monique Laney focuses on the U.S. government-assisted integration of German rocket specialists and their families into a small southern community at the end of World War II. In 1950, Wernher von Braun and his team of rocket experts relocated to Huntsville, Alabama, a town that would celebrate the team, despite their essential role in the Nazi war effort a decade earlier, for their contributions to the U.S. Army missile program and later to NASA's space program. Based on oral histories, provided by members of the African American and Jewish communities, the rocketeers' families, and co-workers, friends, and neighbors, Laney's book demonstrates how the histories of German Nazism and Jim Crow in the American South intertwine in narratives about the past. This is a critical reassessment of a singular time that links the Cold War, the “Space Race,” and the Civil Rights era while addressing important issues of transnational science and technology, and asking Americans to consider their country's own history of racism when reflecting on the Nazi past.

Author : Dennis Piszkiewicz
Publisher : Praeger
ISBN 13 : 0275962172
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wernher Von Braun written by Dennis Piszkiewicz and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1998-11-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the biography of the German man who created the V-2 rocket and came to the United States to develop missiles.

Author : Dennis Piszkiewicz
Publisher : Praeger
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wernher Von Braun written by Dennis Piszkiewicz and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1998-11-30 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the biography of the German man who created the V-2 rocket and came to the United States to develop missiles.

Author : Michael Neufeld
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0525435913
Total Pages : 624 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Von Braun written by Michael Neufeld and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2017-04-12 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Helena Waddy
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199707790
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Oberammergau in the Nazi Era written by Helena Waddy and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2010-05-12 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In her study of Oberammergau, the Bavarian village famous for its decennial passion play, Helena Waddy argues against the traditional image of the village as a Nazi stronghold. She uses Oberammergau's unique history to explain why and how genuinely some villagers chose to become Nazis, while others rejected Party membership and defended their Catholic lifestyle. She explores the reasons for which both local Nazis and their opponents fought to protect the village's cherished identity against the Third Reich's many intrusive demands. She also shows that the play mirrored the Gospel-based anti-Semitism endemic to Western culture.

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Publisher : RCW Ebook Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1311962379
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book German Ideas From The Mid 1920s, Early 1930s & Secretly During WW2 For A Proposed Space Program written by and published by RCW Ebook Publishing. This book was released on 2014-02-18 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Early German rocketeers from the mid 1920s and throughout the 1930s, include such talents as Hermann Oberth, Johannes Winkler, Max Valier, Wernher von Braun, orbiting space wheel designer Hermann Potocnik, and others. In the early 1920s, little rocket societies sprang up all over Germany to promote the spirit of adventure of rocket travel. What of all these men mentioned and numerous other rocketeers interested in space travel when the Nazis came into power in 1933? It didn’t end, and these men remained interested and fascinated and their dreams of space. Although the Nazi Party put a stop to all public rocket demonstrations and any talk of space travel under penalty of prison and/or death, attached are images of what these men were privately thinking. Absolute fantasy in the late 1920s and 1930s, here are images of what they were thinking. Thanks to Mario Merino for the computer generated digital images. Enjoy!

Author : David Myhra PhD
Publisher : RCW Technology & Ebook Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 102 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Peenemunde: The German Experimental Rocket Center-Introduction written by David Myhra PhD and published by RCW Technology & Ebook Publishing. This book was released on 2013-09-28 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the story and details of Peenemünde, the German military rocket developement and test siteduring World War II. It was one of the most modern technological facilities in the world in the years between 1936 and 1945. The first launch of a missile into space took place here in October 1942. In the nearby air force testing area, rocket engineers tested numerous flight objects equipped with revolutionary technology. From the start this research was directed toward one goal only: achieving military superiority through advanced technology. Slave laborers, concentration camp inmates and prisoners of war provided the work that enabled the construction of the test sites and the later serial production of the rockets, which the Nazi propaganda referred to as "Vergeltungswaffe 2" (or "Vengeance Weapon 2"), in so short a period of time. Both the inhumane labor conditions and the attacks on Belgian, British and French cities using the supposed "wonder weapon" claimed thousands of lives.

Author : Dave Stevens
Publisher : IDW Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1600105386
Total Pages : 147 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rocketeer: The Complete Adventures written by Dave Stevens and published by IDW Publishing. This book was released on 2017-03-06 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Rocketeer, by Dave Stevens, is a rollicking tribute to pulp novels and Saturday morning matinee serials. It follows the high-flying adventures of stunt pilot Cliff Secord and his girlfriend Betty, after Cliff finds a mysterious jet pack and takes to the sky. One of the most beloved comic series of all time, The Rocketeer has been completely remastered and is presented here with glorious all-new coloring for the first time.

Author : Wayne Biddle
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393541290
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dark Side of the Moon: Wernher von Braun, the Third Reich, and the Space Race written by Wayne Biddle and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2009-09-28 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 V-2 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.