This is a biography of the young German aristocrat who created Hitler's most advanced terror weapon, the V-2 rocket, and who came to the USA under the Army's "Project Paperclip" to develop missiles essential to the Cold War. It claims that the US Army, in their zeal to have von Braun's team of scientists working for American interests, covered up what they knew about his complicity in Nazi causes and abetted him in the perpetuation of the myth he created about his past.