Soviet/Russian Space Book List - English

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I've compiled a list of what I believe are the best English language books on the Soviet/Russian Space Program:

Springer Praxis Books/Space Exploration
1. Russia's Cosmonauts: Inside the Yuri Gagarin Training Center by Rex Hall, David Shayler, and Bert Vis, 2005, ISBN: 978-0-387-21894-6.
2. The Rocket Men: Vostok and Voskhod, The First Soviet Manned Spaceflights by Rex Hall and David Shayler, 2001, ISBN: 978-1-85233-391-1.
3. Soyuz: A Universal Spacecraft by Rex Hall and David Shayler, 2003, ISBN: 978-1-85233-657-8.
4. Energia-Buran: The Soviet Space Shuttle by Bart Hendrickx and Bert Vis, 2007, ISBN: 978-0-387-69848-9.
5. Salyut - The First Space Station: Triumph and Tragedy by Grujica Ivanovich, 2008, ISBN: 978-0-387-73585-6.
6. Russian Spacesuits by Isaac Abramov and Ingemar Skoog, 2003, ISBN: 978-1-85233-732-2.
7. Soviet and Russian Lunar Exploration by Brian Harvey, 2007, ISBN: 978-0-387-71354-0.
8. The Rebirth of the Russian Space Program: 50 Years After Sputnik by Brian Harvey, 2007, ISBN: 978-387-71354-0.
9. Praxis Manned Spaceflight Log 1961-2006 by Tim Furniss, 2007, ISBN: 978-0-387-34175-0.

University Press of Florida
1. Sputnik and the Soviet Space Challenge by Asif Siddiqi, 2003, ISBN: 978-0-813-02627-5.
2. The Soviet Space Race With Apollo by Asif Siddiqi, 2003, ISBN: 978-0-813-02628-2.

Misc.
1. Soviet Manned Space Program by Phillip Clark, Crown Publishers, 1988, ISBN:
2. Korolev: How One Man Masterminded the Soviet Drive to Beat America to the Moon by James Harford, Wiley, 1999, ISBN: 978-0-471-32721-9.

All of these books are well-researched, scholarly histories by some of the best authors in the Soviet/Russian Space Program field. :thumbsup:thumbsup:thumbsup:thumbsup:thumbsup