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A Man on the Moon: The Voyages of the Apollo Astronauts | 
 enlarge | Author: Andrew Chaikin
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Category: Book
List Price: £12.99
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Rating:  31 reviews
Sales Rank: 54030
Media: Paperback
Edition: New Ed
Pages: 688
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.9
Dimensions (in): 7.6 x 5 x 1.3
ISBN: 0140241469
Dewey Decimal Number: 523
EAN: 9780140241464
ASIN: 0140241469
Publication Date: January 5, 1995
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| Customer Reviews: Read 26 more reviews...
Beautiful,Stunning,enthraling. April 15, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
Only read 31 pages so far but I know that this book is just a classic,so descriptive that you feel as if you are there during all of the events,it enhances my feelings about those pioneering,heroic supermen of my youth.I have also ordered the updated version which is the 5oth anniversary edition, it is so good.
Simply the best book I've ever read December 30, 2007
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
Which includes a lot of books about the Apollo program. It really is that good.
An enthralling surprise June 18, 2007
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This book was a surprise to me. Not so much a tale of derring-do and macho engineering as an insightful, sensitive and thought-provoking examination of the personalities of the astronauts who made those extraordinary journeys. The author and I are obviously comtemporaries as many of my memories of those days match his and I still look back on them with a mix of wistfulness and wonder......did those things actually happen?
It's one of those books I'm sure I'll go back to again and again, and sadly as the lunar astronauts are (literally) a dying breed the author's words are in many instances a suitable epitaph for a remarkable group of men.
Highly recommended.
A truly gripping read. December 4, 2006
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
Andrew Chaikin knows about the moon landings. This is the book that will satisfy both the casual reader seeking to find out about that era, and the 'anorak' who thinks he knows it all, as Chaikin tells the story of one of mankind's greatest achievements. He gains access to the men who flew to the moon and their families, as well as the key members of that vast inverted human pyramid of people who contributed so much... sometimes they dedicated their careers... a few gave their lives. A truly gripping read. THE book about the moon landings.
Brilliant book! November 18, 2006
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
I have read this book twice now and is an excellent read. It gives such insight into the apollo missions.
The first time I read it I whizzed through it. It is totally engrossing.
I just wish I could have been there to see it all for myself!
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