Martin Middlebrook draws on the memories of over 400 people involved in the dramatic events on that night: RAF and Luftwaffe aircrew, German personnel at the research site, and foreign laborers who had been forced to work there.

Dieter Huzel was an electronic engineer with his whole career ahead of him when Germany lurched into the Second World War, he was conscripted and destined for the Russian Front when fate intervened.

The family moved to Cape Canaveral, Florida, and started a new life. This book is the account of growing up in wartime Germany, the adventures of immigrating to the US, and a life-time of keen observation of nature, both animal and human.

... Peenemunde to the end of the wind - tunnel operations there . I assume that the Peenemunde authorities hoped to see the end of work on the aerodynamics of the Wasserfall . What I have reported here about the initial Kochel activities is ...

As he struggles to get the measure of a secretive, brilliant world in which imagination moves far beyond the limits of technology, what at first appears to be a solitary crime draws him into a labyrinth of conspiracy, betrayal and treason ...

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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 ...

This is the story and details of Peenemünde, the German military rocket developement and test siteduring World War II. It was one of the most modern technological facilities in the world in the years between 1936 and 1945.

... Peenemünde always expanded to the south . Uniforms , besides the Wehrmacht's , included those of the Luftwaffe from the airfield and the local Flak units , S.S. detachments whose purpose will ... Peenemünde , at least 26 The Peenemünde Raid.