Germany's V-2 Rocket

This book traces the origins and development of the V—2, from groups of individual experimenters in the 1930s to its use as a weapon system with particular emphasis is paid to such topics as the structure and components of the missile, its ground support equipment, and field procedures.

Germany’s V—2 looks at one of the major technological advances of the Second World War, the V—2 ballistic missile.

Although dwarfed by today’s giant rockets, the V—2 represented a quantum leap beyond anyt...