Korolev

*Korolev* by James Harford vividly reveals the enigmatic "Chief Designer" Sergei Korolev, the man who masterminded the Soviet drive to beat America to the Moon. For decades, his identity was one of the USSR's most guarded Cold War secrets. Despite unjust imprisonment in the Gulag, Korolev engineered Sputnik and the first human spaceflight, profoundly shaping the global space race. Harford's meticulously researched biography offers the first in-depth look at this complex, driven personality, drawing on his unique access and Russian fluency to expose previously unavailable details of Soviet space history. Praised as a "masterly biography" (*Daily Telegraph*) and "must reading" (*Space News*), this "exceptional book" is packed with "technical and historical detail" (*New Scientist*), providing essential insights into the true father of the Soviet space program.

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