Bestselling Star Wars author and former Lucasfilm creative executive
J. W. Rinzler combines actual and speculative history in a sweeping
re-creation of the dramatic race to develop rockets, dominate the skies
over Earth, and explore our Solar System--an epic that rages through
World War II and culminates with the Apollo 11 mission to the Moon.
"With its fascinating personalities that only Rinzler could describe,
All Up can't be put down."--David Mandel, Veep executive producer
All Up plunges its readers into the cloak-and-dagger espionage and
blitzkrieg battles of World War II that swirled around rocketry; it
introduces them to extraterrestrial phenomena, secret organizations, and
the nail-biting missions launched from Cape Canaveral--as well as the
secrets and unknown history behind Apollo 11's legendary trip to the
Moon.
All Up tells the incredible true story of Nazi Germany's Wernher von
Braun, Soviet Russia's Sergei Korolev, and America's Robert Goddard as
they work feverishly to fulfill their countries' technological,
military, and geopolitical objectives while satisfying their own
personal obsessions. Alongside the Space Age history is the strange but
well-documented trail of UFOs--one that leads to a desperate struggle in
the highest corridors of power. Who will control the alien technology
for their hidden agendas during the Cold War? Secret services compete
worldwide in that ruthless game--and no one is a more deadly player than
the mysterious agent named Rachel, hot on the trail of war criminal,
former SS Brigadeführer Hans Kammler.
