VON BRAUN(ISBN=) 英文原版

　　Michael J. Neufeld, curator and space historian at the
Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum, delivers a brilliantly
nuanced biography of 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.

　　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 Manu* Award and the SHOT
Dexter Prize. He lives in Maryland.

Preface and Acknowledgments
A Note on the Name and on Terms
PROLOCUE: A Romantic Urge
CHAPTER ONE: The Wheel of Progress (to 1925)
CHAPTER TWO: Sonny Boy (1925-32)
CHAPTER THREE: The Black Sedan (1932-34)
CHAPTER FOUR: HOW Much Do You Want? (1935-37)
CHAPTER FIVE: His Indisputable Genius (1937-39)
CHAPTER SIX: Future Dreams (1939-42)
CHAPTER SEVEN: A Pretty Hellish Environment (1942-44)
CHAPTER EIGHT” A Young Man, of Very Germanic
Appearance(1944-45)
CHAPTER NINE: Morning in the Desert (1945-46).
CHAPTER TEN: Mars Project (1946-49)
CHAPTER ELEVEN: Space Superiority (1950-54)
CHAPTER TWELVE: We Could Do Itt! (1954-57)
CHAPTER THIRTEEN: The Seer of Space (957-58)
CHAPTER FOURTEEN: I Aim at the Stars (1958-60)
CHAPTER FIFTEEN: Before This Decade Is Out (1960-63)
CHAPTER SIXTEEN: You’re an Optimist, but Then, So Am
I(1963-67)
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN: A Pretty Emotional Moment (1967-69)
CHAPTER EIGHTEEN: For Him, a World Was Falling Apart(1969-72)
CHAPTER NINETEEN: The Heavens Declare the Glory of
God(1972-77)
EPILOCUE: A Faustian Shadow
Notes
Significant Abbreviations Used in the Notes
Bibliography and Archival Sources
Index

　　”Surpasses all previous books about [von Braun]. . . . Deeply
researched, vigorously written, and balanced in its
judgments.”
　　—The Boston Globe
　　”A serious, important book that does justice to its subject’s
moral complexity and place in history.”
　　—Los Angeles Times Book Review
　　“Neufeld’s thoroughly satisfying biography . . . written in
clear, fast-paced prose, offers the most complete, fully documented
and critical account that the imperfect documentary record is
likely to yield.”
　　—The New York Times Book Review
　　“A historian’s masterpiece, will become the definitive
biography.”
　　—American Scientist