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Stealing Hitler’s Rocket: The Incredible Mission to Smuggle a V-2 Rocket Out of Nazi-Occupied Europe to Britain, by Guy Walters

Stealing Hitler’s Rocket: The Incredible Mission to Smuggle a V-2 Rocket Out of Nazi-Occupied Europe to Britain, by Guy Walters

In 1943 Allied reconnaissance identified a major military development site on the Baltic coast, and so began a complex and hazardous smuggling mission of supersonic weaponry.
Trevor James

This is a very engaging book, written in a very accessible style, and this remarkable book does far more than its title suggests. From a personal perspective, having been born in 1946 in Croydon, I grew up acutely conscious of the ‘presence’ of multiple bomb sites....

A Rocket in the Marshes

A Rocket in the Marshes

In 1944, the Polish resistance managed to recover parts of Hitler’s secret V-2 rockets and passed vital intelligence to Britain, the operation becoming one of the most remarkable, yet overlooked, intelligence successes of the war.
Guy Walters

In a lonely corner of eastern Poland, not far from the River Bug, there is a stretch of countryside that looks entirely unremarkable. The villages are small and sleepy, the roads narrow and uneven, the fields flat and windswept. When I visited last November, a cold...