Red Moon Rising: Sputnik and the Hidden Rivalries that Ignited the Space Age

Red Moon Rising: Sputnik and the Hidden Rivalries that Ignited the Space Age
Автор
 
Год
 
Страниц
 
336
ISBN
 
080508858X
Издатель
 
F. A. Davis Company
Категория
 
Академическая литература издательств Америки

Содержание:

Гуси-лебеди, Сестрица Аленушка и братец Иванушка, Маша и медведь, Снегурочка

Описание:

“In his exuberant narrative of the superpower space race . . . [Brzezinski] tells the story of American and Soviet decisions with remarkable dramatic—even cinematic—flair.”—The New York Times Book Review In Red Moon Rising, Matthew Brzezinski recounts the dramatic behind-the-scenes story of the fierce battles on earth that preceded and followed the launch of Sputnik on October 4, 1957. He takes us inside the Kremlin, the White House, secret military facilities, deep-cover safe houses, and the halls of Congress to bring to life the Russians and Americans who feared and distrusted their compatriots at least as much as their superpower rivals. Drawing on original interviews and new documentary sources, Brzezinski tells a story rich in the paranoia of the time. The combatants include three U.S. presidents, survivors of the gulag, corporate chieftains, ambitious apparatchiks, rehabilitated Nazis, and a general who won the day by refusing to follow orders. The true story of the birth of the...

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