Hitler's Rockets: The Story of the V-2s

Norman Longmate

Jul 2009 · Sold by Simon and Schuster

About this ebook

In Hitler’s Rockets Norman Longmate tells the story of the V-2, the technically brilliant but hated weapon, the ancestor and forerunner of all subsequent ballistic missiles. He reveals the devious power-play within the German armed forces and the Nazi establishment that so influenced the creation of the rockets. He shows through contemporary documents and protagonists’ accounts how the British intelligence skillfully pieced together often contradictory evidence as it sought to establish the true nature of the threat. Finally he recalls in detail the feel and fears of the time from the viewpoint of those who suffered, and those who were all too conscious tat they were the target.

About the author

Norman Longmate (1925- ) is an English author and social and military historian. He was educated at Christ's Hospital and Worcester College, Oxford, where he specialized in Modern History. He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. Longmate is the author of many WWII historical books which include: If Britain Had Fallen, The GIs: the Americans in Britain 1942-1945, Hitler's Rockets: The Story of the V2s, and The Home Front: an Anthology of Personal Experience 1938-1945. In 2014 his book, How We Lived Then: A History of Everyday Life during the Second World War, made the New York Times bestseller non-fiction list.