**Now in paperback?the ?amazing?( James Bradley,_New York Times_ bestselling author of _Flags of Our Fathers_) never-before-told story of the greatest escape of the Second World War.** In 1944 the OSS set out to recover more than 500 downed airmen trapped behind enemy lines in Yugoslavia. Classi
For All Humankind: The Untold Stories of How the Moon Landing Inspired the World
✍ Scribed by Tanya Harrison; Danny Bednar
- Book ID
- 100288439
- Publisher
- Mango Media
- Year
- 2020
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 4 MB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9781642500974
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✦ Synopsis
July 20, 1969. Astronauts Neil Armstrong and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin left humanity's first footprints on the Moon.
The plaque they left behind reads, "Here men from the planet Earth first set foot upon the Moon, July 1969, A.D. We came in peace for all mankind." But was the Apollo 11 moon landing mission really a global endeavor? How did people outside the United States view these "rocket men"?
Against the political backdrop of the Cold War between the US and the Soviet Union, was it, indeed, "For all mankind"? Dr. Tanya Harrison has talked to individuals from a variety of locations outside the United States, to see how this event touched the lives of people across the world.
Enthusiasts of space travel, the Apollo missions, and the moon landings will love this book. These previously untold stories reveal the impact of the moon landings around the globe, and what having a "man on the moon" meant to the...
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