CONTENTS

Cover

Title Page

Prologue

PART ONE: The Race for Secrets

1 ‘The Black List’

2 ‘The Germans have set up a giant grill’

3 ‘Kill those German swine’

4 ‘First of all, to the moon’

PART TWO: The Race for Supremacy

5 ‘We’ve not got the right Germans’

6 ‘I am not guilty’

7 ‘Get dressed. You have one hour’

8 ‘Did you understand about the warrant?’

PART THREE: The Race to Space

9 ‘A second moon’

10 ‘Close to the greatest dream of mankind’

11 ‘A Race for Survival’

PART FOUR: The Race to Orbit

12 ‘America sleeps under a Soviet moon’

13 ‘We really are in a great hurry’

14 ‘Why aren’t you dead?’

15 ‘Which one should be sent to die?’

PART FIVE: The Race for the Moon

16 ‘The Soviets are so far ahead’

17 ‘Friends, before us is the moon’

18 ‘I just need another ten years’

19 ‘We’re burning up!’

20 ‘How can we get out of this mess?’

21 ‘One small step’

Epilogue

Acknowledgements

Bibliography

Index

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