Initially to Fort Bliss in El Paso, Texas later to Huntsville, Alabama, where they will begin settling down.Ī lot of text is devoted to prisoners' hardships because (apart from their status as prisoners):
This is the story US taking charge of the spoils of war: German engineers transferred to US as prisoners, along with German weapons design documents & actual physical missile hardware. “Michener is eloquent in describing the actual flights into space, as well as the blazing, apocalyptic re-entry of the shuttle into earth’s atmosphere.Context: novel main page part 1 of this chapter. Without question, the space program’s dramatic dimensions provide the stuff of great fiction.” - BusinessWeek “ Space is everything that Michener fans have come to expect. a sympathetic, historically sound treatment of an important human endeavor that someday could be the stuff of myth, told here with gripping effect.” - The New York Times Book Review Space is one of his best books.” - The Wall Street Journal Michener, by any standards, is a phenomenon. senator who takes his personal battle not only to a nation, but to the heavens Dieter Kolff, a German rocket scientist who once worked for the Nazis Randy Claggett, the astronaut who meets his destiny on a mission to the far side of the moon and Cynthia Rhee, the reporter whose determined crusade brings their story to a breathless world.
This astounding novel brings to life the dreams and daring of countless men and women-people like Stanley Mott, the engineer whose irrepressible drive for knowledge places him at the center of the American exploration effort Norman Grant, the war hero and U.S. Michener tackles the most ambitious subject of his career: space, the last great frontier.
Space is one of his best books.”- The Wall Street JournalĪlready a renowned chronicler of the epic events of world history, James A.
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