Männer Der Rakete.

A collection of autobiographical sketches (“Selbstdarstellungen”) by ten pioneers of rocketry and spaceflight theory — Hanns-Wolf von Dickhuth-Harrach, Robert Esnault-Pelterie, Robert H. Goddard, Franz von Hoefft, Hermann Oberth, Guido von Pirquet, N.A. Rynin, Friedrich Schmiedl, Johannes Winkler, and Konstantin Tsiolkovsky — each writing in their own words about their life and work, illustrated with 11 portraits and 44 figures.

The volume closes with three survey chapters on the era's rocket societies: Willy Ley on the German Verein für Raumschiffahrt's test flights at the Raketenflugplatz Berlin (including Rudolf Nebel's Mirak and Repulsor rockets), C.P. Mason on the American Interplanetary Society, and Rynin again on the Soviet GIRD, followed by editor Werner Brügel's closing word.