Secret Projects of the Luftwaffe - Vol 2: Bombers 1939 -1945

Researchers reveal secret bomber designs, exposing wartime ambition and overlooked engineering milestones.

Dozens of top secret bomber designs were drawn up by the Germans during the Second World War, including gigantic flying wings, sleek jet bombers, asymmetrical bombers with the cockpit and weapons turrets on the ends of their wings and even enormous carriers for single-seat suicide bombers.

Starting with Heinkel’s He 177, the most advanced bomber design of its day in 1936, author Dan Shar...