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Michael J. Neufeld, Von Braun: Dreamer of Space, Engineer of War (NY: Knopf, 2007)

July 15, 2009
By Kevin R. Kosar
Michael J. Neufeld, Von Braun: Dreamer of Space, Engineer of War (NY: Knopf, 2007)

Well Researched, But Not Really a Biography, by Kevin R. Kosar, November 2, 2007 Neufeld should be cheered for the astonishing amount of research he undertook to produce this hefty tome. The author may know more about the history of rocketry than any other person on earth. Yet, I didn’t much like this book....
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