Review Of Von Braun: Dreamer Of Space, Engineer Of War

Do you like having GPS, Weather Reports, and TV Broadcasts? Well you can thank the Nazi’s for that and the tireless efforts of Werner Von Braun. The analysis of the piece of literature I chose “Von Braun: Dreamer of Space, Engineer of War” by Michael J. Neufeld is quite difficult because there is a lot of controversy surrounding Von Braun and his contribution to the United States of America becoming the first country to put a man on the moon. There is, perhaps, no one in the history of spaceflight that is more crucial to unlocking the mystery of outer space and all the advantages we have received that have come with being able to travel outside of our earth’s atmosphere than Von Braun. This book “Von Braun: Dreamer of Space, Engineer of War” is by far the most comprehensive, inclusive, and non-biased piece of literature I have read about Von Braun.
A little backstory about him and his life; it begins on March 23rd 1912 in Wirzitz, in the province of Posen, nowadays called Wyrzysk, Poland. Growing up, Von Braun, read a lot of Sci-Fi and became obsessed with the idea of Space Travel and since he was a small child he messed around with toy rockets and such. In 1930 he attended Technische Hochschule Berlin, where he got a degree in Mechanical
The amount of detail and information I was able to absorb while reading this had me quite inspired. I really feel like I learned everything I needed to know about Von Braun. There is so much controversy surrounding Von Braun, plus the loss of information prior to him coming to America because of the decimation of Germany that’s it’s hard to give accurate information. “It’s the one that wins the war that writes the history books.” If I were to offer critiques they would have been too compress some material of the book, keep the information more focused on Von Braun, and share more about the gravity of the impact this man truly had on humankind as we know it