Wernher Von Braun: The Man Who Sold the Moon

Wernher von Braun: The Man Who Sold the Moon is the first critical biography of the young German aristocrat who created Hitler's most advanced terror weapon, the V-2 rocket, and who came to the U.S. to develop missiles as a central weapon of the Cold War. The book reveals that factions of the U.S. Army, in their zeal to have von Braun's team of scientists working for American interests, covered up what they knew about his complicity in Nazi causes and abetted him in the perpetuation of the myth he carefully created about his past. Declassified Army documents, war crimes trial transcripts, concentration camp survivors' accounts, as well as von Braun's published writings and personal papers have enabled biographer Dennis Piszkiewicz to document von Braun's career more fully than any previous historian.