Space Race : the Epic Battle between America and the Soviet Union for Dominion of Space

This captivating account reveals how two brilliant scientists, former Gulag inmate Sergei Korolev and V-2 rocket program designer Wernher von Braun, were cynically controlled by the USSR and America as indispensable tools during the Cold War. Cadburys villains emerge as Soviet and U.S. political/military leaders who viewed missile research solely as the means to deliver weapons of mass destruction, to spy on the enemy, and to order impossible propaganda coups in space at the expense of their astronauts and cosmonauts.