The Rocket and the Reich: Peenemunde and the Coming of the Ballistic Missile Era by Michael J. Neufeld

The Rocket and the Reich: Peenemunde and the Coming of the Ballistic Missile Era

Michael J. Neufeld

400 pages first pub 1994 (editions)

nonfiction history technology informative tense medium-paced

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WINNER OF THE DEXTER PRIZE OF THE SOCIETY FOR THE HISTORY OF TECHNOLOGY Launched by the Third Reich in late 1944, the first ballistic missile, the V-2, fell on London, Paris, and Antwerp after covering nearly two hundred miles in five minutes. It ...

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