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.
ADVANCE PRAISE FOR ALL UP
“ALL UP is an exceptional book that takes the reader beyond the usual descriptions of the challenges and achievements of the first Space Age, by describing the human reality behind the extraordinary efforts of intelligence and will that made it all possible."
— Dr. Jacques F. Vallée, computer scientist, winner of the Jules Verne Award for science-fiction
“With its fascinating personalities that only Rinzler could describe, ALL UP can’t be put down.”
— David Mandel, executive producer of Veep
"ALL UP reminds me in some ways of the great novels by James Michener and Leon Uris that teach us history in a fictional manner."
— David Chudwin, I Was a Teenage Space Reporter: From Apollo 11 to Our Future in Space
“J. W. Rinzler ingeniously weaves together the stuff of history and science-fiction, what really happened and what seems both fantastic and yet almost possible. So hang on for the jet-propelled ride of your life — you won't want to stop till you find out how it all comes out!”
— Roy Thomas, member Will Eisner Comic Book Hall of Fame
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.
Combining the world-changing events of rocketry, space travel, and world war with some of the most intriguing episodes of extraterrestrials and facts generally hushed up, All Up takes the reader on a truly original journey. Going behind the scenes of Nazi Germany’s hidden rocket base and top secret meetings of MI6, to the mysterious flying saucer crash at Roswell and a possible alien presence on the Moon, Rinzler blends fact and speculative nonfiction to take you deep into history’s most exciting adventure in the company of Winston Churchill, Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin, Dwight Eisenhower, Walt Disney, Yuri Gagarin, Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins, and Buzz Aldrin.
J. W. Rinzler thus brings a fascinating new perspective on the arc of rocket science in the mid-twentieth century—from the V-2 bombardment of London to the launch of Sputnik, the world’s first satellite, to the Gemini, Mercury, and Apollo programs, and more—interlaced with the threads of neglected history: UFOs, Freemasonry, and shadow governments.
ADVANCE PRAISE FOR ALL UP
“ALL UP is an exceptional book that takes the reader beyond the usual descriptions of the challenges and achievements of the first Space Age, by describing the human reality behind the extraordinary efforts of intelligence and will that made it all possible."
— Dr. Jacques F. Vallée, computer scientist, winner of the Jules Verne Award for science-fiction
“With its fascinating personalities that only Rinzler could describe, ALL UP can’t be put down.”
— David Mandel, executive producer of Veep
"ALL UP reminds me in some ways of the great novels by James Michener and Leon Uris that teach us history in a fictional manner."
— David Chudwin, I Was a Teenage Space Reporter: From Apollo 11 to Our Future in Space
“J. W. Rinzler ingeniously weaves together the stuff of history and science-fiction, what really happened and what seems both fantastic and yet almost possible. So hang on for the jet-propelled ride of your life — you won't want to stop till you find out how it all comes out!”
— Roy Thomas, member Will Eisner Comic Book Hall of Fame
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.
Combining the world-changing events of rocketry, space travel, and world war with some of the most intriguing episodes of extraterrestrials and facts generally hushed up, All Up takes the reader on a truly original journey. Going behind the scenes of Nazi Germany’s hidden rocket base and top secret meetings of MI6, to the mysterious flying saucer crash at Roswell and a possible alien presence on the Moon, Rinzler blends fact and speculative nonfiction to take you deep into history’s most exciting adventure in the company of Winston Churchill, Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin, Dwight Eisenhower, Walt Disney, Yuri Gagarin, Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins, and Buzz Aldrin.
J. W. Rinzler thus brings a fascinating new perspective on the arc of rocket science in the mid-twentieth century—from the V-2 bombardment of London to the launch of Sputnik, the world’s first satellite, to the Gemini, Mercury, and Apollo programs, and more—interlaced with the threads of neglected history: UFOs, Freemasonry, and shadow governments.
ALL UP is his second novel, and will be published by Permuted Press on July 14, 2020. Readers can preorder now online or from their local bookstore.
"I've brought readers behind the scenes of Star Wars, Indiana Jones, Planet of the Apes, and Alien. Now I'm bringing readers behind the scenes of the first Space Age. ALL UP travels the distance, from the cataclysmic global conflict of World War II to the Apollo 11 Mission to the Moon. The novel's amazing but true story is populated by real personages -- Churchill, Eisenhower, Hitler, Stalin -- as well as composite and fictional characters. Its primary focus is Faustian engineer Wernher von Braun and his Soviet counterpart, the incredible Sergei Korolev, the mind behind Sputnik, the first man in space, and other firsts. My story also includes spies, soldiers, and extra-terrestrials. ALL UP is a novel because many things admitted behind closed doors never make their way into the public record. ALL UP is a literary interpretation based on five or six years of research, and many drafts. I hope readers will enjoy the final result."
-- J. W. Rinzler
-- J. W. Rinzler
EARLY REVIEWS
"What makes All Up so interesting and unique is not that it’s simply recounting history. It takes speculation and evidence about UFOs and aliens and weaves them into the story seamlessly, creating a hybrid of fact and fiction that’s probably more fact than most people realize." -- io9.gizmodo.com/
"What makes All Up so interesting and unique is not that it’s simply recounting history. It takes speculation and evidence about UFOs and aliens and weaves them into the story seamlessly, creating a hybrid of fact and fiction that’s probably more fact than most people realize." -- io9.gizmodo.com/
SAMPLE CHAPTER
Chapter 9
Peenemünde Army Research Center, Germany
Tuesday, January 17, 1939
At 10:30 a.m. a car called for Oberstleutnant Walter Dornberger, who uncharacteristically had spent the night outside the facility. Von Braun was already seated in the back, wrapped tightly in his trench coat.
“Guten morgen,” he said when his boss climbed in.
“Ja, I heard you had news on our missing Messfrau?” Dornberger asked.
“A mistaken rumor,” von Braun grunted. “It has been over a year, so who knows, maybe she eloped.”
“We will wind down the investigation quietly. The last thing we want to do is alarm the SS and have them come snooping around our operation.”
Their car stopped at a snow-trimmed checkpoint.
“They certainly will not object to the increased security.” Wernher peered out his window at heavily armed guards. “Auf Schritt und Tritt…keine Maus kam rein und raus…”
“It does not matter,” Dornberger said. “They will use any excuse to force their way in, I am afraid. Becker and I and you—all of us—need to keep this a strictly army operation.”
Their car was waved through.
Dornberger admired the natural beauty of their camp. Although his responsibilities kept him busy from dawn till dusk, he enjoyed the facility’s congenial company. It seemed a long holiday in many respects. They all said so. The rigid class structure, with a clear chain of command, reassured them. The saluting, the singing, even the window cleaning had become part of a routine that made them feel like a big family.
“Dr. Schroeder’s calculations are a problem,” von Braun said, changing the subject. “He is too slow and too cautious.”
“I would think caution is a good thing when calculating chemical explosions.”
“You would think wrong. Tests will bear out the numbers. Replace him.”
Dornberger nodded. “What about Steinhoff? He holds the world record for distance in gliders and an honorary Luftwaffe rank of flight captain. He’s a real Nazi.”
“Sounds like a fun guy. Hire him.”
Their vehicle passed through two inner gates.
At the Administration Building they jumped out and walked the last few hundred yards, past the Materials Test Building and the Tool Workshop, toward a long, low building of red brick. Their colleagues hurried by them in a variety of civilian attire, from smart business suits to official-issue leather coats, with their triangular HBP badges; laborers in ragged overalls spoke in their native tongues.
Dornberger numbered these laborers in the thousands; they did the facility’s digging, fetching, and carrying, the pulling and pushing. Foreigners. He made a mental note to look into their food budget, for he’d received complaints of hunger. However, he judged his permissive attitude toward the brothel in the work camp, where two reichsmarks bought a girl, vodka, and a few cigarettes, to be liberal in the extreme.
Dieter, at some distance, spotted the duo and cried out, “What do you think you are doing, Herr Technical Director?”
Neither von Braun nor Dornberger broke their stride, but the technical director called back, “To what are you referring, my dear Arthur?”
Dieter jogged up to them. His red face nearly matched his red hair. “Herr Technical Director, you cannot surprise me and my whole department by casually stating that three ordinary aircraft gyros can be used to indicate a rocket’s position. You must consult me first on such matters!”
“But, Arthur, a solution boldly asserted is half proven! Nicht wahr?”
Wernher slapped Arthur on the back and left him behind to stew.
Dornberger glanced sidelong at his protégé. Wernher had come a long way since his days in the rocket society. As technical director of the Heeresversuchsanstalt, the young man managed hundreds of subordinates, from janitors to professors, with a sure hand that often astonished the career army officer.
Von Braun had become a grown man of strong build, with broad shoulders and a firm handshake, easy movements and a boyish smile, a fine balance of body and mind; indeed, he radiated good nature and exhibited a surprising knowledge of many things, which, for Dornberger, bespoke of a superior education. Von Braun also had a remarkable gift for leaving behind the problems of his office to enjoy a leisure hour or two of hunting or flying.
I chose and trained him well, Dornberger thought.
They ambled through well-tended gardens of planted daisies and roses yet to bloom, framed by soaring pine trees, and entered a brick building that housed the rocket plant’s showpiece: a well-crafted wind tunnel able to simulate flight parameters.
Together, they crossed a wide sunlit entrance hall to the reception room, where Dr. Kurt Debus waited for them beneath a quotation engraved in the wall: Technicians, physicists, and engineers are among the pioneers of the world.
Von Braun joked, “Are those fellows in the hangar still sticking to their ten o’clock siestas? Whenever I come to the test stand, they seem to be having a break. Have they been converting the alcohol to schnapps again?”
Debus snorted. “No, they gave up schnapps and naps since you did not send those comfortable couches you promised.”
“This is not funny,” Dornberger said. “One man went blind and another died from alcohol poisoning. This ridiculous news has come to the attention of Nazi Party HQ at Swinemünde. Now they are taking an interest, which is just—”
“Don’t worry,” Wernher interrupted. “I’ve already thought of something. Have the dead man brought here. We will nail his body to the main gate and leave it there for three days as a warning. They will think we are even more ruthless than they are. They will leave us alone after that.”
Dornberger nodded. “Good idea.”
The trio inspected the premises, checking schedules. They had to shout to be heard over the shrill hiss of air streaming at high speed through the measuring section, which vied with the roar of rocket motors being tested nearby.
Upon exiting the building, Debus lowered his voice. “Herr Technical Director, I think I have a solution to your little problem of landing on Mars.”
Wernher’s blue eyes lit up, but Dornberger snapped, “Gentlemen, we must concentrate on the coming war. It is not an occasion for idle fantasies. We need results. After all, we cannot expect the foolish behavior of our adversaries to last forever. And army money that was once plentiful is drying up!”
Dornberger’s adjutant, Max Magirius, ran toward them waving an envelope. “Oberstleutnant, a telegram from Berlin!”
Dornberger tore open the envelope and read. “Speak of the devil. Gentlemen, prepare yourselves.” He raised his eyes to theirs. “Playtime is over. Er will unseren Fortschritt sehen—the Führer demands a presentation. He arrives in a fortnight.”
Chapter 9
Peenemünde Army Research Center, Germany
Tuesday, January 17, 1939
At 10:30 a.m. a car called for Oberstleutnant Walter Dornberger, who uncharacteristically had spent the night outside the facility. Von Braun was already seated in the back, wrapped tightly in his trench coat.
“Guten morgen,” he said when his boss climbed in.
“Ja, I heard you had news on our missing Messfrau?” Dornberger asked.
“A mistaken rumor,” von Braun grunted. “It has been over a year, so who knows, maybe she eloped.”
“We will wind down the investigation quietly. The last thing we want to do is alarm the SS and have them come snooping around our operation.”
Their car stopped at a snow-trimmed checkpoint.
“They certainly will not object to the increased security.” Wernher peered out his window at heavily armed guards. “Auf Schritt und Tritt…keine Maus kam rein und raus…”
“It does not matter,” Dornberger said. “They will use any excuse to force their way in, I am afraid. Becker and I and you—all of us—need to keep this a strictly army operation.”
Their car was waved through.
Dornberger admired the natural beauty of their camp. Although his responsibilities kept him busy from dawn till dusk, he enjoyed the facility’s congenial company. It seemed a long holiday in many respects. They all said so. The rigid class structure, with a clear chain of command, reassured them. The saluting, the singing, even the window cleaning had become part of a routine that made them feel like a big family.
“Dr. Schroeder’s calculations are a problem,” von Braun said, changing the subject. “He is too slow and too cautious.”
“I would think caution is a good thing when calculating chemical explosions.”
“You would think wrong. Tests will bear out the numbers. Replace him.”
Dornberger nodded. “What about Steinhoff? He holds the world record for distance in gliders and an honorary Luftwaffe rank of flight captain. He’s a real Nazi.”
“Sounds like a fun guy. Hire him.”
Their vehicle passed through two inner gates.
At the Administration Building they jumped out and walked the last few hundred yards, past the Materials Test Building and the Tool Workshop, toward a long, low building of red brick. Their colleagues hurried by them in a variety of civilian attire, from smart business suits to official-issue leather coats, with their triangular HBP badges; laborers in ragged overalls spoke in their native tongues.
Dornberger numbered these laborers in the thousands; they did the facility’s digging, fetching, and carrying, the pulling and pushing. Foreigners. He made a mental note to look into their food budget, for he’d received complaints of hunger. However, he judged his permissive attitude toward the brothel in the work camp, where two reichsmarks bought a girl, vodka, and a few cigarettes, to be liberal in the extreme.
Dieter, at some distance, spotted the duo and cried out, “What do you think you are doing, Herr Technical Director?”
Neither von Braun nor Dornberger broke their stride, but the technical director called back, “To what are you referring, my dear Arthur?”
Dieter jogged up to them. His red face nearly matched his red hair. “Herr Technical Director, you cannot surprise me and my whole department by casually stating that three ordinary aircraft gyros can be used to indicate a rocket’s position. You must consult me first on such matters!”
“But, Arthur, a solution boldly asserted is half proven! Nicht wahr?”
Wernher slapped Arthur on the back and left him behind to stew.
Dornberger glanced sidelong at his protégé. Wernher had come a long way since his days in the rocket society. As technical director of the Heeresversuchsanstalt, the young man managed hundreds of subordinates, from janitors to professors, with a sure hand that often astonished the career army officer.
Von Braun had become a grown man of strong build, with broad shoulders and a firm handshake, easy movements and a boyish smile, a fine balance of body and mind; indeed, he radiated good nature and exhibited a surprising knowledge of many things, which, for Dornberger, bespoke of a superior education. Von Braun also had a remarkable gift for leaving behind the problems of his office to enjoy a leisure hour or two of hunting or flying.
I chose and trained him well, Dornberger thought.
They ambled through well-tended gardens of planted daisies and roses yet to bloom, framed by soaring pine trees, and entered a brick building that housed the rocket plant’s showpiece: a well-crafted wind tunnel able to simulate flight parameters.
Together, they crossed a wide sunlit entrance hall to the reception room, where Dr. Kurt Debus waited for them beneath a quotation engraved in the wall: Technicians, physicists, and engineers are among the pioneers of the world.
Von Braun joked, “Are those fellows in the hangar still sticking to their ten o’clock siestas? Whenever I come to the test stand, they seem to be having a break. Have they been converting the alcohol to schnapps again?”
Debus snorted. “No, they gave up schnapps and naps since you did not send those comfortable couches you promised.”
“This is not funny,” Dornberger said. “One man went blind and another died from alcohol poisoning. This ridiculous news has come to the attention of Nazi Party HQ at Swinemünde. Now they are taking an interest, which is just—”
“Don’t worry,” Wernher interrupted. “I’ve already thought of something. Have the dead man brought here. We will nail his body to the main gate and leave it there for three days as a warning. They will think we are even more ruthless than they are. They will leave us alone after that.”
Dornberger nodded. “Good idea.”
The trio inspected the premises, checking schedules. They had to shout to be heard over the shrill hiss of air streaming at high speed through the measuring section, which vied with the roar of rocket motors being tested nearby.
Upon exiting the building, Debus lowered his voice. “Herr Technical Director, I think I have a solution to your little problem of landing on Mars.”
Wernher’s blue eyes lit up, but Dornberger snapped, “Gentlemen, we must concentrate on the coming war. It is not an occasion for idle fantasies. We need results. After all, we cannot expect the foolish behavior of our adversaries to last forever. And army money that was once plentiful is drying up!”
Dornberger’s adjutant, Max Magirius, ran toward them waving an envelope. “Oberstleutnant, a telegram from Berlin!”
Dornberger tore open the envelope and read. “Speak of the devil. Gentlemen, prepare yourselves.” He raised his eyes to theirs. “Playtime is over. Er will unseren Fortschritt sehen—the Führer demands a presentation. He arrives in a fortnight.”
Further Reading/Bibliography
The following were sources of inspiration and information. Many other books and magazines were also consulted. Many Internet sites were used. This list can also be used for further reading on the subjects and players of All Up.
Memoir
Aldrin, Buzz, and Warga, Wayne. Return to Earth: Colonel Edwin E. Buzz Aldrin Jr. New York: Random House, 1973.
Braun, Christina von. Stille Post. Munich: Propylaen, 2007.
Braun, Wernher von. First Men to the Moon. New York: Holt, Reinhart and Winston, 1960.
Braun, Wernher von. The Mars Project. Chicago: Illinois Books Edition, University of Illinois Press, 1991.
Butcher, Harry C. My Three Years with Eisenhower: The Personal Diary of Captain Harry C. Butcher, USNR naval aide to General Eisenhower 1942 to 1945. New York: Simon & Schuster Inc., 1946.
Chertok, Boris. Rockets and People, Volume One, Two, Three, Four. Ed. Asif Siddiqi. Washington D.C: NASA, 2009.
Churchill, Winston S. The Second World War: The Gathering Storm. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1948.
Churchill. The Second World War: Their Finest Hour. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1949.
Churchill. The Second World War: The Hinge of Fate. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1950.
Churchill. The Second World War: The Grand Alliance. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1950.
Churchill. The Second World War: Closing the Ring. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1951.
Churchill. The Second World War: Triumph and Tragedy. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1953.
Collins, Michael. Carrying the Fire: An Astronaut’s Journeys. New York: Copper Square Press-Rowman and Littlefield Publishing Group, 2001.
Corso, Philip J. The Day After Roswell. Pocket Books. 1998.
Dornberger, Walter. V-2. New York: Bantam Books, 1954.
Eisenhower, Dwight D. Crusade in Europe. Garden City: Doubleday and Company Inc., 1952.
Fallaci, Oriana. If The Sun Dies. New York: Athenaeum House Inc., 1967.
Gibson, Guy. Enemy Coast Ahead. New York City: Bantam Books, 1979.
Goddard, Robert H. Rockets: Two Classic Papers. Mineola: Dover Publications, Inc., 2002.
Gordon, Arthur. Countdown for Decision: Maj. General J.B. Medaris. New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1960.
Gröttrup, Irmgard. Rocket Wife. Translated by Susi Hughes. London: Andre Deutsch, 1959.
Huzel, Dieter K. Peenemünde to Canaveral. Englewood Cliffs, Prentice Hall Inc., 1962.
Johnson, Lyndon Baines. The Vantage Point: Perspectives of the Presidency 1963 to 1969. New York: Holt Rinehart and Winston, 1971.
Jones, R. V. Most Secret War. New York: Penguin Books, 1978.
Joubert de la Ferté, Sir Philip. Rocket. New York: Philosophical Library Inc., 1957.
Karman, Theodore von and Edson, Lee. The Wind and Beyond: Pioneer in Aviation and Pathfinder in Space. Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1967.
Keitel, Wilhelm. The Memoirs of Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel, Chief of the German High Command: 1938-1945. Ed Walter Gorlitz. Trans. David Irving Cooper. New York: Square Press-Rowman and Littlefield Publishing Group, 2000.
Kraft, Chris. Flight: My Life in Mission Control. New York: Plume-Penguin Inc., 2001.
Kranz, Gene. Failure Is Not an Option. New York: Simon and Schuster Paperbacks-Simon & Schuster Inc., 2009.
Khrushchev, Sergei. Khrushchev on Khrushchev. Ed William Talman. Trans. William Talman. Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1990.
Kubizek, August. The Young Hitler I Knew. London: Greenhill Books, 2006.
Lord Moran. Winston S. Churchill: Taken From the Diaries of Lord Moran. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1966.
Lindsay, Hamish. Tracking Apollo to the Moon. London: Springer Verlag Ltd., 2001.
Michel, Jean. Dora: The Nazi concentration camp where modern space technology was born and 30,000 prisoners died. New York: Holt Rinehart and Winston, 1979.
Schirra, Wally and Ed Buckbee. The Real Space Cowboys. Ontario: Apogee Books Publication, 1971.
Speer, Albert. Inside the Third Reich: Memoirs. New York: Collier Books-MacMillan Publishing Co. Inc., 1970.
Stachurski, Richard. Below Tranquility Base in Apollo 11: Memoir. North Charleston: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform, 2013.
Biography
Carter, John. Sex and Rockets: The Occult World of Jack Parsons. Venice: Feral House. 1999.
Hansen, James R. First Man: The Life of Neil A. Armstrong. New York: Simon & Schuster Paperbacks-Simon and Schuster Inc., 2012.
Harford, James. Korolev. New York: John Wiley and Sons Inc., 1997.
Koroleva, Nataliya. Father: Volumes One and Two. Moscow: Nauka Publishers, 2008.
Lehman, Milton. This High Man: The Life of Robert H. Goddard. New York: Pyramid Books, 1970.
Penndel, George. Strange Angel: The Otherworldly Life of Rocket Scientist John Whiteside Parsons. Orlando: Harcourt Inc., 2005.
Ordway III, Frederick I. and Ernst Stuhlinger. Von Braun, Werner: Crusader for Space: A Biographical Memoir. Malabar: Krieger Publishing Co., 1994.
Romanov, A. Spacecraft Design: Story of Sergei Koralev. Moscow: Novosti Press Agency Publishing House, 1976.
History
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Armstrong, Neil and Michael Collins, Edwin E. Aldrin Jr., Gene Farmer, and Dora Jane Hamblin. First on the Moon. Toronto: Little Brown and Company Inc., 1970.
Bergaust, Eric. Reaching for the Stars. Garden City: Doubleday & Co., Inc., 1960.
Braun, Wernher von and Frederick I. Ordway III. The Rocket’s Red Glare. Garden City: The Third Anchor Press-Doubleday, 1976.
Brzezinski, Matthew. Red Moon Rising. New York: Times Books: Henry Space-Henry Holt and Co., LLC, 2007.
Caiden, Martin. War for the Moon. New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc., 1959.
Caiden, Martin. Man into Space. New York: Pyramid Books, 1961.
Chaikin, Andrew. A Man on the Moon: The Voyages of Apollo Astronauts. New York: Penguin Books, 1995.
Cook, Nick. The Hunt for Zero Point: Inside the Classified World of Antigravity Technology. New York: Broadway Books, 2001.
Dalin, David G and John F Rothmann. Icon of Evil: Hitler's mufti and the rise of radical Islam. New York: Random House Inc., 2008.
D’Este, Carlo. Eisenhower: A Soldier’s Life. New York: Henry Holt and Company, LLC, 2002.
Goldhagen, Daniel Jonah. Hitler's Willing Executioners. New York: Vintage Books-Random House Inc., 1997.
Greer M. D., Steven M. Disclosure: Military and Government Witnesses: Review of the Greatest Secrets in Modern History. Crozet: Crossing Point Inc., 2001.
Hoagland, Richard C. and Mike Bara. Dark Mission: The Secret History of NASA. Port Townsend: Farrell House, 2009.
Hoffman, Peter. Hitler's Personal Security: Protecting the Fuhrer, 1921-1945. New York: De Capo Press Edition-Perseus Books Group, 2000.
Holcombe, Larry. The Presidents and UFOs: A Secret History From FDR to Obama. New York: Saint Martins Press, 2015.
Irving, David. The Mare’s Nest. London: Panther Granada Publishing,1985.
Kahn, David. Hitler's Spies: German Military Intelligence in World War II. New York: MacMillan Publishing Co. Inc., 1978.
Knight, Christopher and Alan Butler. Who built the Moon? London: Watkins Publishing, 2005.
Lang, Daniel. From Hiroshima to the Moon. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1959.
McDougall, Walter. The Heavens and the Earth: A political history of the space-age. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Paperbacks Edition-The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997.
McGovern, James. Crossbow and Overcast. New York: William Morrow and Company Inc., 1964.
Middlebrook, Martin. The Peenemünde Raid: August 17-18, 1943. London: Cassell Military Paperbacks-Cassell and Company, 2000.
Miller, Alice. For Your Own Good. Trans. Hildegard and Hunter Hannum. New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1983.
Miller, Donald L. The Story of World War II. New York: Simon and Schuster, 2001.
Neufeld, Michael J. The Rocket and the Reich. New York: The Free Press-Simon & Schuster Inc., 1995.
Neufeld. Von Braun. New York: Alfred A. Knopf-Random House Inc., 2007.
Newton, Jim. Eisenhower: The White House Years. New York: Anchor Books-Random House, Inc., 2012.
Ordway III, Frederick I. and Mitchell R Sharpe. The Rocket Team. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Publishers, 1979.
Ordway III, Frederick I. and Randy Liebermann. Blueprint for Space: Science Fiction to Science. Washington: Smithsonian institution Press, 1992.
Piszkiewicz, Dennis. The Man Who Sold the Moon: Wernher von Braun. Westport: Praeger Publishers, 1998.
Salla, PhD, Michael E. Kennedy's Last Stand: Eisenhower, UFOs, MJ-12 and JFK's Assassination. Kealakekua: Exopolitics Institute, 2013.
Shirer, William L. The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1960.
Sitchin, Zecharia. The 12th Planet. New York: Stein and Day, 1976.
Sparrow, Giles. Spaceflight: The Complete Story from Sputnik to Apollo and Beyond. New York: DK Publishing, 2009.
Talbot, David. The Devil’s Chessboard. Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the Rise of America’s Secret Government. New York: HarperCollins, 2015.
Trundle, PhD, Robert. Is E.T. Here? Victoria: Eccenova Editions, 2005.
Vesco, Renato. Intercept UFO: The True Story of the Flying Saucers. New York: Zebra Books, 1974.
Ward, Bob. Dr. Space: The Life of Wernher von Braun. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 2005.
The following were sources of inspiration and information. Many other books and magazines were also consulted. Many Internet sites were used. This list can also be used for further reading on the subjects and players of All Up.
Memoir
Aldrin, Buzz, and Warga, Wayne. Return to Earth: Colonel Edwin E. Buzz Aldrin Jr. New York: Random House, 1973.
Braun, Christina von. Stille Post. Munich: Propylaen, 2007.
Braun, Wernher von. First Men to the Moon. New York: Holt, Reinhart and Winston, 1960.
Braun, Wernher von. The Mars Project. Chicago: Illinois Books Edition, University of Illinois Press, 1991.
Butcher, Harry C. My Three Years with Eisenhower: The Personal Diary of Captain Harry C. Butcher, USNR naval aide to General Eisenhower 1942 to 1945. New York: Simon & Schuster Inc., 1946.
Chertok, Boris. Rockets and People, Volume One, Two, Three, Four. Ed. Asif Siddiqi. Washington D.C: NASA, 2009.
Churchill, Winston S. The Second World War: The Gathering Storm. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1948.
Churchill. The Second World War: Their Finest Hour. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1949.
Churchill. The Second World War: The Hinge of Fate. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1950.
Churchill. The Second World War: The Grand Alliance. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1950.
Churchill. The Second World War: Closing the Ring. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1951.
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