Completed: 3/13/2022
Recommendation: Mild recommendation
Recommended By: Nobody, I just cannot seem to get enough of this story
Words for which I sought help:
assiduity -- Constant or close attention to what one is doing
perspicacity -- the quality of having a ready insight into things; shrewdness
Review:
In some ways this book feels like an effort to rehabilitate Werner von Braun. The very end of the very last chapter seems to acknowledge that von Braun is no hero, but the rest of the book pretty much sings his praises. I think that he did a lot and wonder about men on the moon without him, but I cannot sing his praises without immediately also echoing his horrible actions. At no point, from what I can see, did he ever take responsibility for his role in the Holocaust.
In general, I find these books a familiar review of the events of the day. This one is that, but nothing exceptional in that regard.
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