Michael Neufeld

Spacefarers: Images of Astronauts and Cosmonauts in the Heroic Era of Spaceflight (A Smithsonian Contribution to Knowledge)

The recent 50th anniversaries of the first human spaceflights by the Soviet Union and the United States, and the 30th anniversary of the launching of the first U.S. Space Shuttle mission, have again brought to mind the pioneering accomplishments of the first quarter century of humans in space. Histo...

Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum: An Autobiography

Designed to convey the awe of a visitor first walking into the world's largest showplace of aviation history, this Autobiography headlines the incredible collections, both on view and behind the scenes, of the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum. The official story and insiders' tales of the m...

Von Braun: Dreamer of Space, Engineer of War

Curator and space historian at the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum delivers a brilliantly nuanced biography of controversial space pioneer 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 consis...

The Bombing of Auschwitz: Should the Allies Have Attempted It? [Paperback] [2003] (Author) Michael J. Neufeld, Michael Berenbaum

The Rocket and the Reich: Peenemünde and the Coming of the Ballistic Missle Era

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...

Planet Dora: A Memoir Of The Holocaust And The Birth Of The Space Age

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...

Milestones of Space: Eleven Iconic Objects from the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum (Smithsonian Series)

A beautifully illustrated history of the exploration of space through the most iconic objects from the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum. Throughout the whole of human history, across all of Earth's cultures and landscapes, countless individuals have gazed up at the stars with wonder and awe...

The Rocket and the Reich: Peenemunde and the Coming of the Ballistic Missile Era

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 a...

The Rocket and the Reich: Peenemunde and the Coming of the Ballistic Missile Era

Von Braun: Dreamer of Space, Engineer of War

The Bombing of Auschwitz: Should the Allies Have Attempted It?

The Bombing of Auschwitz: Should the Allies Have Attempted It?

Planet Dora: A Memoir of the Holocaust and the Birth of the Space Age

Planet Dora: A Memoir of the Holocaust and the Birth of the Space Age

The Skilled Metalworkers of Nuremberg: Craft and Class in the Industrial Revolution

Beyond Nafta: The Western Hemisphere Interface