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

Neufeld, Michael J.

 
9780674776500: The Rocket and the Reich: Peenemunde and the Coming of the Ballistic Missile Era
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ISBN 10: 067477650X ISBN 13: 9780674776500
Casa editrice: Harvard Univ Pr, 1996

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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. The design and construction of this daring and deadly advance in weaponry took place at the German rocket development center at Peenemünde, a remote island off the Baltic Coast. Now, Michael J. Neufeld gives the first comprehensive and accurate account of the story behind one of the greatest engineering feats of World War II. At a time when rockets were minor battlefield weapons, Germany ushered in a new form of warfare that would bequeath a long legacy of terror to the Cold War era and a tactical legacy that remains essential today. Both democracy's and communism's ballistic missile and space programs, as well as the SCUD and Patriot missiles of the Gulf War, began in the service of the Nazi State.

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Editore
Harvard Univ Pr
Data di pubblicazione
1996
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
067477650X
ISBN 13 
9780674776500
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Copertina flessibile
Numero di pagine
382
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ISBN 10:  1588344673 ISBN 13:  9781588344670
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