Planet Dora: A Memoir of the Holocaust and the Birth of the Space Age

by Yves Beon and Michael J. Neufeld

Book Overview

An extraordinary memoir by a survivor of the Nazi camps, Yves Beon, Planet Dora is a recollection of life and death in a concentration camp like no other. Dora was a cavernous underground factory cut out of solid rock, where life was like a nightmarish scene from Dante: thousands of prisoners beaten, starved, killed, and living underground for weeks at a time. The purpose of all this brutality was to build the world's first operational rockets: the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813332729
• ISBN13: 9780813332727
• Release Date: March 1997
• Publisher: Basic Books
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.4" x 9.3"