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"Cold War Space Sleuths" reads like a Cold War espionage novel, but the reality of the story about the dedicated amateur observers bent on finding out about Soviet spaceflight during the Cold War is just as exciting and absorbing. Told in the sleuth's own words, each chapter unfolds a piece of the hidden history of what was happening behind the Iron Curtain. Coming from all over the world, including Russia itself, the amateur spies give first-hand accounts of often-forgotten aspects of the Cold War space race. Amongst others, their stories include: [list][*]the history of the Kettering Group; [*]looking inside the Russian archives; [*]mysteries, such as the cosmonauts who were airbrushed out of the official archives; [*]Russian language space secrets; [*]reading between the lines of the Soviet media; [*]the impact of Gorbachev's Glasnost on sleuthing;[/list] "Cold War Space Sleuths" includes an impressive list of contributors, such as: [list][*]Editor Dominic Phelan, giving an overall history of the Cold War hunt for Soviet space secrets. [*]Space writer Brian Harvey reveals his own personal search through official Soviet radio and magazines to find out what they were (and weren't) revealing to the outside world at the height of the space race. [*]Robert Christy gives a firsthand account of the famed Kettering Group. [*]Sven Grahn from Sweden details his own 40 year quest to understand what was happening on the other side of the Iron Curtain. [*]Professional American historian Asif Siddiqi explores his own adventures in the once secret Russian archives - often seeing documents never before read by Westerners. [*]Dutch cosmonaut researcher Bert Vis provides an inside account of the Yuri Gagarin training center in Moscow. [*]Belgian researcher Bart Hendrickx's details his important translation of the 1960s' diaries of cosmonaut team leader General Kamanin. [*]Pioneer space sleuth James Oberg's shares his memories of his own notable 'scoops' - including revelations about missing cosmonauts, the Nedelin rocket explosion and his trips to previously secret facilities after the fall of the USSR. [*]Paris-based writer Christian Lardier recounts the efforts of French space sleuths - whose work was frequently overlooked in the USA and Britain because of the language barrier.[/list]
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