The rocket and the reich : Peenemünde and the coming of the ballistic missile era /
The story behind one of the greatest engineering feats of World War II. The Rocket and the Reich is the paradoxical tale of the creation of a technology that would prove so valuable to Allied powers after the war but ultimately proved a failure to the Germans during it. Two 8-page photo inserts; 6 m...
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New York :
Free Press,
c1995
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Table of Contents:
- Prologue: Summer 1943
- 1. The Birth of the Missile
- 2. The Founding of Peenemunde
- 3. Breakthrough in Key Technologies
- 4. Peenemunde's Time of Troubles
- 5. Hitler Embraces the Rocket
- 6. Speer, Himmler, and Slave Labor
- 7. The Move Underground
- 8. Rockets, Inc.
- Epilogue: Peenemunde's Legacy
- Appendix 1. The German Army Ordnance Liquid-Fuel Rocket Series
- Appendix 2. Organizational Structures of the Army Rocket Program
- Prologue: Summer 1943
- 1 Birth of the Missile
- 2. Founding of Peenemunde
- 3. Breakthrough in Key Technologies
- 4. Peenemunde's Time of Troubles
- 5. Hitler Embraces the Rocket
- 6. Speer, Himmler, and Slave Labor
- 7. Move Underground
- 8. Rockets, Inc.
- Epilogue: Peenemunde's Legacy
- Appendix 1. The German Army Ordnance Liquid-Fuel Rocket Series
- Appendix 2. Organizational Structures of the Army Rocket Program.
- Prologue: Summer 1943
- 1 The Birth of the Missile
- 2. The Founding of Peenemunde
- 3. Breakthrough in Key Technologies
- 4. Peenemunde's Time of Troubles
- 5. Hitler Embraces the Rocket
- 6. Speer, Himmler, and Slave Labor
- 7. The Move Underground
- 8. Rockets, Inc.
- Epilogue: Peenemunde's Legacy
- Appendix 1. The German Army Ordnance Liquid-Fuel Rocket Series
- Appendix 2. Organizational Structures of the Army Rocket Program.