Von Braun

<p><b>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. </b></p><p>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.</p>