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  • Hubertus Strughold

    Life and Work in the Fields of Space Medicine

    by Mark Campbell, Viktor Harsch ...
    Dr. Hubertus Strughold was an early pioneer of aerospace medicine. He was the Director of the Aeromedical Research Institute of the German Air Ministry in Berlin during World War II. After the war, he was brought to the U.S. as a part of "Operation Paperclip" and was instrumental in the early development of space medicine. His contributions were so fundamental that he is called "The Father of ... Read more

    $41.99 USD

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  • Operation Paperclip

    The Secret Intelligence Program that Brought Nazi Scientists to America

    by Annie Jacobsen ...
    The fascinating story of America's secret post-WWII science programs, from the New York Times bestselling author of Area 51 and Biological War**.****“This book is a remarkable achievement of investigative reporting and historical writing.” ―**Boston GlobeIn the chaos following World War II, the U.S. government faced many ... ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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  • The Hunt for Zero Point

    Inside the Classified World of Antigravity Technology

    by Nick Cook ...
    This riveting work of investigative reporting and history exposes classified government projects to build gravity-defying aircraft--which have an uncanny resemblance to flying saucers.The atomic bomb was not the only project to occupy government scientists in the 1940s. Antigravity technology, originally spearheaded by scientists in Nazi Germany, was another high priority, one that still may be in ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Breaking the Chains of Gravity

    The Story of Spaceflight before NASA

    by Amy Shira Teitel ...
    The incredible story of spaceflight before the establishment of NASA.NASA's history is a familiar story, one that typically peaks with Neil Armstrong taking his small step on the Moon in 1969. But America's space agency wasn't created in a vacuum. It was assembled from pre-existing parts, drawing together some of the best minds the non-Soviet world had to offer.In the 1930s, rockets were all the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Me 262 Stormbird: From the Pilots Who Flew, Fought, and Survived It

    From the Pilots Who Flew, Fought, and Survived It

    by Colin D. Heaton, Jorg Czypionka, Tillman ...
    The Me 262 was the first of its kind, the first jet-powered aircraft. Although conceived before the war, with the initial plans being drawn in April 1939, the Stormbird was beset with technological (particularly the revolutionary engines) and political difficulties, resulting in it not entering combat until August 1944, with claims of nineteen downed Allied aircraft. The performance of the Me 262 ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Secrets of the Spitfire

    The Story of Beverley Shenstone, the Man Who Perfected the Elliptical Wing

    by Lance Cole ...
    This book tells the tale of the brilliant aerodynamicist Beverley Shenstone MASc, HonFRAes, FAIAA,AFIAS, FCASI, HonOSTIV. As R.J. Mitchells chief aerodynamicist, it was Shenstone who designed the Spitfires wing the wing that gave the Spitfire it crucial advantage in the Battle of Britain and beyond. A quiet man, Shenstone never sought glory for his work, yet in recent years he has been credited as ... Read more

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  • Hitler's Suppressed and Still-Secret Weapons

    by Henry Stevens ...
    Now we know what spooked the Allies in the closing months of the war and why they were in such a panic to win quickly. The Allies assembled intelligence reports of supermetals, electric guns, and ray weapons able to stop the engines of Allied aircraft in addition to their worst fears of x-ray and laser weaponry. Then there were the bombs. Contained in this book are reports of structured bombs ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Secrets of a German POW

    The Capture and Interrogation of Hauptmann Herbert Cleff

    by Brian Brinkworth ...
    This is the riveting and extraordinary story of Kapitan Herbert Cleff, presented here for the first time by Brian Brinkworth. Cleff, an Officer on the staff of General Wilhelm Ritter von Thoma, attached to the 21st Panzer division operating in the Western desert, was captured near El Dab'a in Libya on the 6th November, 1942. He was interrogated both in the Western Desert and in the United Kingdom, ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • A Ball, a Dog, and a Monkey

    1957 - The Space Race Begins

    by Michael D'Antonio ...
    A Ball, a Dog, and a Monkey tells the remarkable story of America's first efforts to succeed in space, a time of exploding rockets, national space mania, Florida boomtowns, and interservice rivalries so fierce that President Dwight Eisenhower had to referee them.When the Soviet Union launched the first orbital satellite, Sputnik I, Americans panicked. The Soviets had nuclear weapons, the Cold War ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • Space Race

    The Battle to Rule the Heavens (text only edition)

    by Deborah Cadbury ...
    From the author of ‘Seven Wonders of the Industrial World’, the ebook edition of the TV tie-in charting the shocking but true story behind the space race – and the ruthless, brilliant scientists who fuelled it.With the end of the Cold War it is now possible to reveal its generation of secrets and cover-ups, bringing an historical opportunity: the unmasking of the true heroes and villains behind ... Read more

    $6.49 USD

  • Daring Young Men

    The Heroism and Triumph of The Berlin Airlift-June

    by Richard Reeves ...
    In the early hours of June 26, 1948, phones began ringing across America, waking up the airmen of World War II—pilots, navigators, and mechanics—who were finally beginning normal lives with new houses, new jobs, new wives, and new babies. Some were given just forty-eight hours to report to local military bases. The president, Harry S. Truman, was recalling them to active duty to try to save the ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • This New Ocean

    The Story of the First Space Age

    by William E. Burrows ...
    It was all part of man's greatest adventure--landing men on the Moon and sending a rover to Mars, finally seeing the edge of the universe and the birth of stars, and launching planetary explorers across the solar system to Neptune and beyond.The ancient dream of breaking gravity's hold and taking to space became a reality only because of the intense cold-war rivalry between the superpowers, with ... Read more

    $15.99 USD