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

Launched by the Third Reich in late 1944, the primary ballistic missile, the V-2, fell on London, Paris, and Antwerp after protecting almost 2 hundred miles in 5 minutes. It was a surprising achievement, one which heralded a brand new age of ballistic missiles and area launch autos. Michael J. Neufeld provides the primary complete and correct account of the story behind one of many best engineering feats of World Battle II. At a time when rockets had been minor battlefield weapons, Germany ushered in a brand new type of warfare that may bequeath an extended legacy of terror to the Chilly Battle, in addition to the means to enter area. Each the US and USSR’s rocket packages had their origins within the Nazi state.