Fascinating and in-depth history of the men who fired the WWII V-2
Rockets against England.
In the final, desperate months of World War Two, at a time when the
German war machine was considered by the Allies to be an almost spent force,
Adolf Hitler unleashed a new weapon against England and Western
Europe that fell from the silence of the Earth’s upper atmosphere
and the edge of space. It was a weapon that struck fear into the hearts and
minds of wartime civilians; it came without warning and defence was impossible.
This was an unseen threat that fell at supersonic speeds, levelling suburban
streets to dust in seconds, terrorising the residents of London and Antwerp – this was the V2 Rocket.
However, this book looks beyond this infamous rocket and explores the
history of the men who took these weapons and fired them across the ocean to
England, terrorising an entire
country who waited in fear for the sounds of the V-2s overhead. Causing much
damage in various important parts of the country, why and how these men achieved
this devastating goal is finally revealed.
