The Flying Bomb

'The noise of its flight was hideous. It was coarser, louder, more blatant than the regular pulsation of ordinary aircraft ... it flew on a course from which there was no deviation. A long flame of exhaust gave the whole ugly structure a fiendish kind of life'.
No one who endured the bombardment of London, Brussels, Antwerp or Liege will ever forget the sound of the 'devil's organ pipe' as it approached its target or the sudden ten seconds of silence that announced its final dive to destruction.
This was a new weapon, more psychologically terrifying than ever the blitz of cities by bombers. Impersonal, unselective, issuing forth from tiny copses or hamlets in France, it brought the random destruction of civilian targets to the foregound of modern warfare. It heralded a new age that would become the 'push-button' brink of total destruction in which we live today.
Had the Germans deployed the V-1 more successfully and earlier, had the Allied Intelligence service not acted so swiftly and their bombers so effectively, the outcome of World War II might have been very different.
This book traces the development of the V-1, the history of its campaign and its ultimate failure as a vengeance weapon under Allied air attacks. Its detailed appendices will enlighten the specialist on the 'hardware' of war and its story, a tale of suspense and detection as exciting as any in World War II, lavishly illustrated, will enthrall everyone.

by Richard Anthony Young
Published by Ian Allan 1978 1st edition. 160pp profusely illustrated, appendix, bibliography. 20x27 boards slightly bowed, otherwise very good, including d/j.





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