V-2
V-2 | Rare and modern books | Dornberger, Walter, Ley, Willy - Introduction, Cleugh, James, Halliday, Geoffrey - Translators
V-2
V-2 | Rare and modern books | Dornberger, Walter, Ley, Willy - Introduction, Cleugh, James, Halliday, Geoffrey - Translators
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Details
- Year of publication
- 1955
- Place of printing
- New York
- Author
- Dornberger, Walter, Ley, Willy - Introduction, Cleugh, James, Halliday, Geoffrey - Translators
- Publishers
- The Viking Press
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
- Edition
- Second Printing
- Keyword
- V-2, Rockets, Rocket Development, German Army, Nazi Weapons, World War II, Peenemunde, Rocket Research, A-4, Werner Von Braun, Thiel Zanssen, Dornberger, Long-Range Bombardment, Test Stand, Solid Fuel Rocket Development, Hydrogen Peroxide, Missiles History Military Engineering
- Binding description
- J H Good Hardcover
- State of preservation
- Good
- Languages
- English
- Binding
- Hardcover
- First edition
- False
Description
Second printing of the 1954 first English edition. pp. xvi, [16] plates, xvii-xviii, [2]-281. Index. Sixteen fabulous black and white photographic plates illustrate the V-2 and related personages. "The inside story of Hitler's 'secret weapon' - and the men and events behind it - that almost changed the course of history." - dust jacket. Author was a German General and head of the Peenemunde Rocket Station. Book is clean and unmarked with moderate wear to publisher's green cloth. Binding sound. Average wear to dust jacket which is now preserved in glossy new archival-grade Brodart. A quality copy of this fascinating work. Enser p.373. Book
ISBN: B003LTPAZW