ROCKETS by Ley, W. reviewed by Frederick I. Ordway III

From The Space Library

ROCKETS

by Ley, W.

New York, 1944: Viking Press, 287 pages, OP

This is the original title of a series that has grown into the present "Rockets, Missiles and Space Travel" (see 1957 entry). In ten chapters it covers "The Beginnings of the Idea"; "The Decades of the Great Dreams"; "The Rocket's Red Glare"; "Prophets with some Honor"; "The Battle of the Formulae"; "Success, Failure and Politics"; "The Meteorological Rocket"; "The Rocket into Cosmic Space"; "The Spaceship"; and "Terminal in Space." As with later editions, useful appendices are included.

Extracted from the 1962 Publication Annotated Bibliography of Space Science and Technology with an Astronomical Supplement - A History of Astronautical Book Literature 1931 - 1961. by Frederick I. Ordway III