Soviet space program omitted reports of failure or trouble". Out of fear of admitting any defeat, reports of cosmonauts' missions leaned towards an exaggerated positive spin rather than factual substance. "The USSR was famously described by Winston Churchill as 'a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma' and nothing signified this more than the search for the truth behind its space program during the Cold War. Although the Space Race was literally played out above our heads, it was often obscured by a figurative 'space curtain' that took much effort to see through" says Dominic Phelan in the book "Cold War Space
The Riddle of the Sands by the TV movie "Das Rätsel der Sandbank" (1984), produced by the public television and radio station Radio Bremen, and starring Burghart Klaußner as Davies and Peter Sattmann as Carruthers. In 1998, nautical writer Sam Llewellyn wrote a continuation of the story named "The Shadow in the Sands". This is subtitled "being an account of the cruise of the yacht "Gloria" in the Frisian Islands in April of 1903 and the Conclusion of the Events described by Erskine Childers." The Riddle of the Sands The Riddle of the Sands: A Record of Secret Service is a 1903 novel by Erskine