Background
Neufeld, Michael John was born on July 7, 1951 in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. Son of Henry John and Isabel Grace (Mitchell) Neufeld.
(Launched by the Third Reich in late 1944, the first balli...)
Launched by the Third Reich in late 1944, the first ballistic missile, the V-2, fell on London, Paris, and Antwerp after covering nearly two hundred miles in five minutes. The design and construction of this daring and deadly advance in weaponry took place at the German rocket development center at Peenemünde, a remote island off the Baltic Coast. Now, Michael J. Neufeld gives the first comprehensive and accurate account of the story behind one of the greatest engineering feats of World War II. At a time when rockets were minor battlefield weapons, Germany ushered in a new form of warfare that would bequeath a long legacy of terror to the Cold War era and a tactical legacy that remains essential today. Both democracy's and communism's ballistic missile and space programs, as well as the SCUD and Patriot missiles of the Gulf War, began in the service of the Nazi State.
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( Launched by the Third Reich in late 1944, the first ba...)
Launched by the Third Reich in late 1944, the first ballistic missile, the V-2, fell on London, Paris, and Antwerp after covering nearly two hundred miles in five minutes. The design and construction of this daring and deadly advance in weaponry took place at the German rocket development center at Peenemünde, a remote island off the Baltic Coast. Now, Michael J. Neufeld gives the first comprehensive and accurate account of the story behind one of the greatest engineering feats of World War II. At a time when rockets were minor battlefield weapons, Germany ushered in a new form of warfare that would bequeath a long legacy of terror to the Cold War era and a tactical legacy that remains essential today. Both democracy's and communism's ballistic missile and space programs, as well as the SCUD and Patriot missiles of the Gulf War, began in the service of the Nazi State.
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(Michael J. Neufeld, curator and space historian at the Sm...)
Michael J. Neufeld, curator and space historian at the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum, delivers a brilliantly nuanced biography of Wernher von Braun. Chief rocket engineer of the Third Reich and one of the fathers of the U.S. space program, Wernher von Braun is a source of consistent fascination. Glorified as a visionary and vilified as a war criminal, he was a man of profound moral complexities, whose intelligence and charisma were coupled with an enormous and, some would say, blinding ambition. Based on new sources, Neufeld's biography delivers a meticulously researched and authoritative portrait of the creator of the V-2 rocket and his times, detailing how he was a man caught between morality and progress, between his dreams of the heavens and the earthbound realities of his life.
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( An extraordinary memoir by a survivor of the Nazi camps...)
An extraordinary memoir by a survivor of the Nazi camps, Yves Béon, Planet Dora is a recollection of life and death in a concentration camp like no other. Dora was a cavernous underground factory cut out of solid rock, where life was like a nightmarish scene from Dante: thousands of prisoners beaten, starved, killed, and living underground for weeks at a time. The purpose of all this brutality was to build the world’s first operational rockets: the V-1 and V-2 missiles, Hitler’s vengeance weapons.Some of Germany’s most brilliant engineers were involved with production at Dora, including Werner von Braun, who after the war went on to become the father of the American space program. It was his Saturn V rocket, designed with the help of his wartime comrades, that put the first man on the moon; while the Saturn V project was headed by the same man who had been the director of slave labor in Dora. In fact, some of the very rockets built in Dora were packed up after the war and shipped to New Mexico to serve as the seeds of the U.S. space program. In a very real sense, the greatest technological achievement of the twentieth century had its origins in the enslavement and murder of thousands of innocent people, the down payment of a Faustian bargain that still tarnishes the foundation of our reach for the stars.
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(WINNER OF THE DEXTER PRIZE OF THE SOCIETY FOR THE HISTORY...)
WINNER OF THE DEXTER PRIZE OF THE SOCIETY FOR THE HISTORY OF TECHNOLOGY Launched by the Third Reich in late 1944, the first ballistic missile, the V-2, fell on London, Paris, and Antwerp after covering nearly two hundred miles in five minutes. It was a stunning achievement, one that heralded a new age of ballistic missiles and space launch vehicles. Michael J. Neufeld gives the first comprehensive and accurate account of the story behind one of the greatest engineering feats of World War II. At a time when rockets were minor battlefield weapons, Germany ushered in a new form of warfare that would bequeath a long legacy of terror to the Cold War, as well as the means to go into space. Both the US and USSR's rocket programs had their origins in the Nazi state.
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Neufeld, Michael John was born on July 7, 1951 in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. Son of Henry John and Isabel Grace (Mitchell) Neufeld.
Bachelor with 1st class honors, University Calgary, Alberta, 1974. Master of Arts, University British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, 1976. Master of Arts, Johns Hopkins University, 1980.
Doctor of Philosophy in History, Johns Hopkins University, 1984.
History researcher, Department Supply and Superior vena cava syndrome, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, summer 1973, 74; teaching assistant, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, 1979-1980; instructor, Clarkson U., Potsdam, New York, 1983-1984; from part-time instructor to part-time assistant professor, Clarkson U., Potsdam, New York, 1983-1985; visiting assistant professor, State University of New York, Oswego, 1985-1986; visiting assistant professor, Colgate University, Hamilton, New York, 1986-1988; Verville fellow, National Air and Space Museum, Washington, 1988-1989; Smithsonian postdoctoral fellow, National Air and Space Museum, Washington, 1989-1990; curator aeronautics, National Air and Space Museum, Washington, 1990-1999; curator space history, National Air and Space Museum, since 1999. Curator Air Power in World War II series, 1991-1994.
(WINNER OF THE DEXTER PRIZE OF THE SOCIETY FOR THE HISTORY...)
(Relates the story of the German development of missile te...)
(Launched by the Third Reich in late 1944, the first balli...)
( Launched by the Third Reich in late 1944, the first ba...)
( An extraordinary memoir by a survivor of the Nazi camps...)
(Using this artisan group, author demonstrates how craft a...)
(Michael J. Neufeld, curator and space historian at the Sm...)
Member German Studies Association, Conference Group on Control European History, Society Military History, Society for History Technology, History of Science Society.
Married Sheila Faith Weiss, May 29, 1983 (divorced December 1992). Married Karen Lee Levenback, June 14, 1994.