{"product_id":"wernher-von-braun-the-man-who-sold-the-moon","title":"Wernher von Braun: The Man Who Sold the Moon","description":"\u003cp\u003ePerhaps no one in history has played the role of scientist as celebrity with as much skilland as much deceptionas Wernher von Braun. Americas leading rocket expert and most enthusiastic advocate of space travel  he had a closet full of secrets that would have shocked his colleagues and millions of admirers if they had been told during his lifetime. Wernher von Braun:The Man Who Sold the Moon is the first critical biography of the young German aristocrat who created Hitlers most advanced terror weapon  the V-2 rocket  and who came to the U.S. under the Armys Project Paperclip 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 Brauns 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 and war crime transcripts  as well as the discovery of Europe of Dora concentration camp survivors accounts  and von Brauns published writings and personal papers  have enabled biographer Dennis Piszkiewicz to document von Brauns career more fully than any previous historian. The man who tirelessly promoted space travel  worked with NASA to collaborate with Walt Disney creating television programs and the Tomorrowland section of Disneyland  and put the first astronauts on the moon  was actually a member of the Nazi party  held a rank in the SS equivalent to that of Major  and was an accomplice in the use of slave labor from the Dora concentration camp to produce his V-2 rocket. When the Third Reich collapsed  von Braun unashamedly switched his allegiance to the victor  and adroitly distanced himself from his Nazi partners. By going on to promote NASA and sell the American people on his dreams of space exploration  he became the man who sold the moona man who began his brilliant career by selling his soul to the Nazis.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44985813336117,"sku":"ByrdShop_0275962172","price":53.78,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780275962173.jpg?v=1770872480","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/wernher-von-braun-the-man-who-sold-the-moon","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}