This is an excellent outline to both the history and technology of the British rocket and satellite launcher program of the 50's and 60's. The book is homage to the Black Arrow satellite launcher but also covers unfulfilled concepts for larger launchers. It contains an interesting chronography and description of British rocket engines as well as many illustrations and pictures. The book also includes a brief (and painstakingly even-handed) analysis of the political mismanagement that beset the whole of the British launcher programme. I expect that you will, like me, come away feeling frustrated and saddened regarding how this brilliant and successful avenue of British technology was consigned to the scrap heap. The book is a small yet well presented item and well worth the money. (A bit like Black Arrow itself really!)
