Full name: Starman: The Truth Behind the Legend of Yuri Gagarin

Authors: Jamie Doran, Piers Bizony Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Biographies, Non Fiction, History, Science Culture: Russia Purchase/reserch links: Amazon Goodreads LibraryThing ISBNs: 9781408815540 9780747536888 1408815540 0747536880

Yuri Gagarin is one of the great heroes of the twentieth century, but the details of his life and the Russian space effort have been shrouded in secrecy: even the names of the engineers who worked with Gagarin were a mystery to the West for many years. Starman is the first book to tell the compelling story behind Gagarin's life and his audacious first flight into space aboard a converted nuclear weapon. He was once the most famous man in the world yet in his life, as in death, he was a man the world knew almost nothing about. Similar books: Korolev by James Harford Dancing Under the Red Star by Karl Tobien Deke! by Donald K. Slayton Two Sides of the Moon by David Scott Sally Ride by Lynn Sherr Light This Candle by Neal Thompson Gorbachev by William Taubman Moondust by Andrew Smith Catherine the Great by Robert K. Massie Khrushchev by William Taubman The Rasputin File by Edvard Radzinsky Neil Armstrong by Jay Barbree Alexandra by Carolly Erickson My Journey to the Stars by Scott Kelly The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot Galileo's Daughter by Dava Sobel Rocket Men by Robert Kurson Genius by James Gleick