Starman: The truth behind the legend of Yuri Gagarin

About this book

Yuri Gagarin is one of the great heroes of the twentieth century but the details of his life and the Russian space effort have been shrouded in secrecy: even the names of the engineers who worked with Gagarin were a mystery to the West for many years. Starman is the first book to tell the compelling story behind Gagarins life and his audacious first flight into space aboard a converted nuclear weapon. He was once the most famous man in the world yet in his life as in death he was a man the world knew almost nothing about.