Von Braun: Dreamer of Space, Engineer of War
by Neufeld, Michael
- Used
- near fine
- Paperback
- Signed
- Condition
- Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0307389375
- ISBN 13
- 9780307389374
- Seller
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About This Item
587 pages in photo illustrated wraps. Fifth printing of this Vintage trade paperback edition. Signed and inscribed by the author to John C. Sommerer [former director of the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory] on the title page. Book is the winner of the Eugene Emme award for Astronautical Literature [gold and blue award sticker affixed to the first preliminary page. Light bump to top fore edge corner. Clean and unmarked with tight binding and square spine.
Synopsis
Michael Neufeld is the museum curator in the Space History Division of The Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum. He was educated at the University of Calgary and The Johns Hopkins University, where he received his doctorate in history. His book The Rocket and the Reich: Peenemunde and the Coming of the Ballistic Missile Era was published by The Free Press in 1995 and was awarded the AIAA History Manuscript Award and the SHOT Dexter Prize. He lives in Maryland.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Roomful of Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 260
- Title
- Von Braun: Dreamer of Space, Engineer of War
- Author
- Neufeld, Michael
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0307389375
- ISBN 13
- 9780307389374
- Publisher
- Random House Vintage
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2008
- Pages
- 587
- Keywords
- Aeronautics; Aerospace engineering; John C. Sommerer
- Bookseller catalogs
- Science; Aeronautics; Aerospace Engineering;
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