Escape from Earth: A Secret History of the Space Rocket, Hardcover - Fraser MacDonald

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The story of the engineers, dreamers and rebels who brought about the American space programme proves to be eccentric, occultist and rife with unus...

Lies, spies, sex-magic and socialism: the secret history of the first American rocket in space.Illustrations: plate section

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A journey through the history of science and humankind's relationship with the night sky and the cosmos beyond, from the author of Royal Society Pr...

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Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Flora FraserNumber of pages: 320Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 241 x 164 x 34Cover type: Hardback...

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Helen Fry provides a significant reassessment of MI9, the branch of military intelligence that helped Allied fighters escape from behind enemy line...

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DescriptionJens Mulller was one of only three men who successfully escaped from Stalag Luft III (now in ?aga? Poland) in March 1944--the break that...

Accompanying a four-part BBC series featuring David Attenborough, a book of over 200 sattelite images and stills from the BBC Natural History Unit'...

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These two short novels, published in the early 1930's ranked high in Tanizaki's own estimation of his work. The contrast is stark, but in their con...

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