“Imagining Outer Space: European Astroculture in the Twentieth Century” | Roger Launius’s Blog

This is the European counterpart to Howard McCurdy’s great book “Space and the American Imagination.”
Seems it focuses quite a bit on the search for ET life and UFOs. 
http://launiusr.wordpress.com/2013/11/13/wednesdays-book-review-imagining-outer-space/