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Live from Cape Canaveral - Covering the Space Race, from Sputnik to Today
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Live from Cape Canaveral - Covering the Space Race, from Sputnik to TodayLive from Cape Canaveral - Covering the Space Race, from Sputnik to Today

Barbree got his first taste of covering the space race in 1957 when he did a cursory radio report on the launch of Russia's Sputnik 1 launch, the satellite that finally lit a match under the lagging efforts of U.S. space exploration. In this engrossing memoir, he retraces the politics—domestic and international—as well as the science and technology behind the U.S. space program. Barbree has covered every mission flown by astronauts from Sputnik to the failed U.S. Vanguard, later triumphs and the tragedies of Challenger and Columbia, and the drama of Apollo 13.
 
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Tags: space, Sputnik, launch, Barbree, flown, Canaveral
The Eagle Has Flown
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The Eagle Has FlownThe Eagle Has Flown

Their breathtaking showdown in The Eagle Has Landed established Jack Higgins as the undisputed master of the World War II spy thriller. Now IRA gunman Liam Devlin and fallen German assassin Kurt Steiner are back - joining forces to attempt the most daring coup of the war against a target at the very highest levels of the Third Reich...
From the depths of London's underworld to the war rooms of Berlin, Jack Higgins sweeps us back to the dangerous world of The Eagle Has Landed for the story that millions have waited for...a tale of ambiguious alliances, nonstop action and heart-stopping suspense that only Jack Higgins could tell.
 
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Tags: Eagle, Higgins, Landed, sweeps, dangerous, Flown, Berlin
Falcon (Animal series)
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Falcon (Animal series) by Martin WallenFalcon (Animal series) by Martin WallenThe fastest animal on earth, the falcon deserves attention not just for the combination of speed, power, beauty and ferocity that have made it an object of fascination for thousands of years, but for the light it sheds on the cultures through which it has flown. This book, bridging science and cultural history, surveys the practical and symbolic uses of falcons in human culture in new and exciting ways.

 
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Tags: surveys, practical, symbolic, history, cultural, Falcon, series, Animal, flown, bridging