Military, Scientific, and Technological
This book is a welcome and compelling portrayal not only of Schriever but also of the bureaucratic tussles and engineering challenges behind the missile and space programs of the 1950s and 1960s.
Olivier Wieviorka. Translated by M.B. Debevoise
One might think that there would be little new for historians in the big events of World War II, but the books keep on coming.
Pointing to the way the Soviet nuclear program was structured, Gordin questions whether Soviet spies and captured German scientists made as much of a difference to the timing of the Soviet atomic bomb project as is often assumed.
