Sputnik: The Shock of the Century Booklocker.com Eton College

Eton College

The forth book in the plot twisting

including Nan: The Life of an Irish Travelling Woman

with her gift of Craft and the aid of his loyal crew

Sputnik: The Shock of the Century Booklocker.com Eton CollegeOn October 4, 1957, the day Leave It to Beaver premiered on American television, the Soviet Union launched the space age. Sputnik, all of 184 pounds with only a radio transmitter inside its highly polished shell, became the first artificial satellite in space; while it immediately shocked the world, its long term impact was even greater, for it profoundly changed the shape of the twentieth century. Paul Dickson chronicles the dramatic events and