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Beyond: The Astonishing Story of the First Human to Leave Our Planet and Journey into Space [Mīkstie vāki]

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  • Formāts: Paperback / softback, 512 pages, height x width x depth: 198x129x33 mm, weight: 370 g
  • Izdošanas datums: 14-Apr-2022
  • Izdevniecība: William Collins
  • ISBN-10: 0008372543
  • ISBN-13: 9780008372545
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  • Formāts: Paperback / softback, 512 pages, height x width x depth: 198x129x33 mm, weight: 370 g
  • Izdošanas datums: 14-Apr-2022
  • Izdevniecība: William Collins
  • ISBN-10: 0008372543
  • ISBN-13: 9780008372545
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Thrilling High-definition history: tight, thrilling and beautifully researched SUNDAY TIMES







This book is a triumph DAN SNOW







9.07 a.m., April 12, 1961. A top-secret rocket site in the USSR. A young Russian sits inside a tiny capsule on top of the Soviet Unions most powerful intercontinental ballistic missile originally designed to carry a nuclear warhead and blasts into the skies. His name is Yuri Gagarin and he is about to make history.





Travelling at almost 18,000 miles per hour ten times faster than a rifle bullet Gagarin circles the globe in just 106 minutes. While his launch begins in total secrecy, within hours of his landing he has become a world celebrity the first human to leave the planet.



Beyond tells the thrilling story behind that epic flight on its sixtieth anniversary. It happened at the height of the Cold War as the US and USSR confronted each other across an Iron Curtain. Both superpowers took enormous risks to get a man into space first the Americans in the full glare of the media, the Soviets under deep cover. Both trained their teams of astronauts to the edges of the endurable. In the end the race between them would come down to the wire.



Drawing on extensive original research and the vivid testimonies of eyewitnesses, many of whom have never spoken before, Stephen Walker unpacks secrets that were hidden for decades and takes the reader into the drama featuring the scientists, engineers and political leaders on both sides, and above all the American astronauts and their Soviet rivals battling for supremacy in the heavens.

Recenzijas

This book is a triumph Dan Snow



Just a wonderful book, I cant recommend it enough Giles Coren



The thrilling story is not the first study of Gagarin and the Vostok missions, still less of Nasas Mercury Seven astronauts but bringing the two stories together is a masterstroke It is high-definition history: tight, thrilling and beautifully researched Sunday Times



Many intriguing revelations [ and an] extensive, blow-by-blow account of the race to put a human in space  Tells the full story of the finest two hours of [ Gagarin's] tragically short life Literary Review



Thrilling brings a huge amount that is fresh and new to our understanding of the Space Race Daily Telegraph



Cinematic Walker develops a colourful sense of the political theatre of space exploration Spectator



Scintillating The thrilling ride to be the first man in space is vividly captured in this retelling of Russias favourite son Financial Times



A gripping story, rich in novelistic detail Highly recommended BBC Sky at Night, five stars



Brings to life the space race and the extraordinary story of Yuri Gagarin A history that reads like a thriller Anne Applebaum



The very best account of Yuri Gagarins pioneering space mission vivid, thoughtful, and respectful A wonderfully rendered story of an epochal event Asif Siddiqi



The exhilaration of a fine thriller Colin Thubron



Suddenly, every previous biography of cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin and his epic Earth-orbiting flight has been superseded A spellbinding and completely authoritative account The finest, best researched book ever written on the subject Colin Burgess



Dramatic and dynamic. Stephen Walkers passion for his subject along with his exceptional research and attention to detail have brought my fathers extraordinary journey vividly to life Elena Gagarina, daughter of Yuri Gagarin

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A Times Book of the Year 2021
Stephen Walker was born in London. He has a BA in History from Oxford and an MA in the History of Science from Harvard. His previous book was Shockwave: Countdown to Hiroshima, a New York Times bestseller. As well as being a writer he is also an award-winning documentary director. His films have won an Emmy, a BAFTA and the Prix dOr, Europes most prestigious documentary award. Young@Heart, a film about an American chorus of seniors, won the Los Angeles Film Festival Audience Award in 2007 and was subsequently released to critical acclaim in cinemas across the US by Fox Searchlight.