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V-1, V-2; Hitler's Vengeance on London
by Johnson, David
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/Good
- ISBN 10
- 0812828585
- ISBN 13
- 9780812828580
- Seller
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Silver Spring, Maryland, United States
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About This Item
New York: Stein and Day, 1981. Presumed First U. S. Edition, First printing. Hardcover. Good/Good. Peter Hammond (Author photograph). 203, [7] pages. List of Illustrations. List of Maps and Line Drawings. Acknowledgments. List of Contributors. Twelve chapters: A Terrible Vengeance; 'Hit by a Powder Puff'; 'Like a Will-o'-the-Wisp in the night'; 'Keep...Firing with all Dispatch'; 'The doodlebugs are Finished...We Hope!'; 'An Extraordinary Thunderclap'; 'Gas Mains' and 'Phantom Bangs'; 'Well, That Seems to Be That'; "Poor London. Poor Me.'; "A Different Ballgame'; 'God Damn - Here We Go Again'; and 'The Last Bullet'. :A Note on Sources. Index. DJ has some wear, soiling and is taped to the boards. Pencil marks at margins noted. V-1, V-2: Hitler's Vengeance on London is the full story of the year Hitler's guided missiles fell on London. Based on eyewitness accounts from both sides, which includes previously classified information. This book was originally published as: V for Vengeance. London: W. Kimber, 1981. The full story of the year Hitler's guided missiles fell on London. Only five minutes from launch to impact--not even enough time to sound an air raid alert. They could not be tracked and they traveled too high and too fast to be shot down. This is not a scenario of World War III, but the story of the development of the Nazis' secret weapons and the devastation they wrought that, given a little more time, might have turned the tide on World War II. Seen through the eyes of the Germans who devised and launched these weapons, as well as the people on the receiving end, here is an unprecedented "you are there" reconstruction of those times when the death throes of the Nazi empire claimed tens of thousand of Allied civilian casualties.
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- Bookseller
- Ground Zero Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 83054
- Title
- V-1, V-2; Hitler's Vengeance on London
- Author
- Johnson, David
- Illustrator
- Peter Hammond (Author photograph)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Presumed First U. S. Edition, First printing
- ISBN 10
- 0812828585
- ISBN 13
- 9780812828580
- Publisher
- Stein and Day
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1981
- Keywords
- V-1, V-2, Buzz Bomb, Doodlebug, Rocket, Missile, Richard Baker, Gwladys Cox, von Braun, Flying Bomb, Peenemunde, Duncan Sandys, Wouw Koeoeman, Otto Neuchel, Max Wachtel
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