Soviet Russia's Space Program During the Space Race: The History and Legacy of the Competition That Pushed America to the Moon

While a well footnoted piece, it seems to lack much depth into the complexity of the Soviet program. Other works shed more light into the desire to beat the west, while lacking the technology.

...when one realizes the level of unknown that these men and women faced, their status as heroes becomes even more clear." Very good book that helped satisfy my interest in space after having watched the movie "The Martian.' Touches on several topics including mention of Sputnik, Konstantin Tsiolkovsky (inventor of the rocket ship formula), first dogs in space (Laika,Belka,and Strelka), Yuri Gagarin's fateful journey followed by his premature death and much more complete with several photos. I rather enjoyed this book (and the movie) for renewing my interest in the Cosmos and what lies beyond our planet.

The title and description are accurate, but there isn't a lot of meat on these bones. It was worth the time, but was not in depth.

Reads like a college freshman's term paper on the Soviet space program, complete with footnotes. Definitely not a detailed history. You can gather more information from Wikipedia. Charles River editors, the publisher, appears to be nothing more than a vanity publishing firm. No real book publisher would have printed this rubbish.

These are great short reads for when waiting in the airport!

Not worth the money...very rudimentary...could have gotten more information online

Not sure that the book is worth $3. A very low-information overview of the Soviet Program. I learned very little new information. This reads like an executive summary of a book, rather than a book itself.

What it really does is a quick, shallow literature review of other, better-researched, and better written books on the subject. The author's original input is next to non-existent, save for some arbitrary and absolutely subjective comments. Example: "(...) Komarov died 'cursing the people who had put him inside a botched spaceship.'[146] While that is considered by many to be an apocryphal story, there's no doubt Komarov must've had those kinds of thoughts running through his mind as he met his end".

I paid £1.99 for something to short to be called a book. Just a brief overview of what had been wrote about the Russian space program in other books. Very disappointed.

Interessante e ben strutturato, un ottimo testo per approfondire le conoscenze sulla storia dell'astronautica sovietica durante gli anni della corsa alla Luna. Sono presenti piccole discrepanze ma per un argomento he per anni fu top secret ci possono stare. Non leggete solo questo, per conoscere l'argomento indispensabili i quattro volumi di Boris Chertok e validissimo il testo di Luca Boschini.

NO es ni siquiera un libro, es un folleto encuadernado hecho a base de copiar y pegar textos obvios que se pueden encontrar en Internet sin esfuerzo. Las tofos tampoco merecen la pena. Salvo la cubierta, el interior son hojas de una impresora laser. No se lo recomiendo de ninguna manera.