Table of Contents
List of Photographs 7
List of Line Drawings 8
Introduction 9
The V Weapons 17
Vergeltungswaffe 1 17
Reichenberg 27
Vergeltungswaffe 2 28
The A4 design 34
The High Pressure Pump 43
V-4? 51
Aircraft 52
Messerschmitt 163 52
The Luftwaffe's Viper 53
Dornier's Arrow 56
New bombers 57
Jet engines 58
Messerschmitt 262 59
Arado 234 59
The People's Fighter 60
Air-Launched Weapons 62
Recoilless guns 62
Gerät 104 and Sondergerät 113A 64
Bordwaffen 66
Air-to-ground rockets 68
Firtz-X 69
Henschel 293 72
Hs 293 variants 75
Other Henschel designs 80
Anti-ship weapons 83
Hagelkorn 85
Mistel 86
Air-to-air weapons 88
Kurt, Germany's Dambuster? 93
Air Defence Weapons 95
Bigger and better guns 95
All wind and noise 97
Electric power 98
Anti-aircraft rockets 100
Anti-aircraft missiles 102
Enzian 110
Rheintochter 116
Feuerlilie 120
Artillery 123
The taper-bore guns 123
Gustav and Dora 127
Adam, Eve, Odin, Thor, Loki and Ziu 146
K5 Glatt; the 150km cannon 148
K12; the cross-Channel gun 152
Small shells for big guns 154
Rocket artillery 158
The Röchling shell 162
Other aspects of ammunition design 163
The Sea War 172
Torpedoes 174
New U-Boats 175
Fast attack craft 175
Midget submarines 176
Nuclear and Chemical Warfare 178
The nuclear bomb 178
Chemical warfare 183
Biological warfare 190
Appendices
1 The Special List 192
2 German Code Names 199
Index 219