Books : HITLER'S MIRACLE WEAPONS: The Secret history of the Rockets and Flying Crafts of the Third Reich Volume 2 - From the V-1 to the A-9; Unconventional short- ... weapons (Hitler's Miracle Weapons)
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Type of bind: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 355.0217094309044
EAN num: 9781874622628
ISBN number: 1874622620
Label: Helion and Company Ltd.
Manufacturer: Helion and Company Ltd.
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 136
Printing Date: 2005-05
Publishing house: Helion and Company Ltd.
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Following on from the sucess of volume 1, Friedrich Georg's second book in the series covers unconventional short- and medium-range weapons. In particular, this volume includes a wealth of information about the V-rocket programme, not just the more familiar V-1 and V-2, but special variants of these two rockets as well as later experimental craft and weaponry. Following a fascinating examination of pre-war efforts to build flying bombs, the author examines the V-1 and V-2 projects in great detail. Particular attention is paid to special variants that have previously received little coverage. These include the V-2 A-4 'America Rocket', and V-2s designed to carry nuclear and radiological warheads. The capability of the Germans to deploy such weapons is also discussed. A large number of weird and wonderful projects that never left the drawing board are examined, including the FR-35, V-6, V-101, Waterfall and Naval EMW A-7 rockets. The fascinating final section examines German plans to utilise such rocketry against London and Paris in 1945, as well as recounting the activities of V-weapons on other fronts, including Italy, Yugoslavia and the Eastern Front. The text is supported by b/w photographs and 16 superb pages of colour artwork, including profiles, computer-generated images of designs that never flew, and pictures of the author's own models
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Many years ago, Dorthy Parker reviewed a publication by opening with "This is what you might call a gift book--you wouldn't take it under any other circumstances". I acquired this volume similarly.
Mr Georg takes any number of items minor related to known existing projects and extrapolates them into major 'what-if's, implying that the Reich actually possessed function prototypes of atomic/radiological weapons. Arguably, the most absurd item he throws out is the suggestion that that the fission bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki by the USAAF were the direct outgrowth of the scientists, hardware and information captured by the US and British forces at the close of the fighting in Europe.
Unless you're a serious Wermacht '46 modeler or wargamer looking for new material, I strongly recommend that you save your money.
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The author has carefully researched this subject. He is careful to identify conjecture. This volume, along with the first, shows that German atomic research continued after its supposed abandonment according to official history. There were at least three separate projects to develop an atomic bomb. Heisenberg is the best known but there were others. Search for the name Konrad Zuse for the world's very first binary computer. The magnetophone was another bit of high-technology used by the SS. As the Allies advanced on Germany, spies and traitors helped to prevent the deployment of the victory weapons in time. V-1s and V-2s, plus larger rockets which were known to exist according to American intelligence, would be armed with atomic warheads.
The author reproduces relevant, declassified American intelligence documents. For those interested in more, I recommend the book Critical Mass. It is also worth noting that the zirconium for the world's very first (American) nuclear submarine did not come from America.
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Bob Hope is famously quoted as saying after we landed on the moon, "I wanted to call NASA to congratulate them, but I don't speak German."
As with all the best humour, it is the strong link to reality that makes it all the more amusing.
How is it that the US was able to beat the Soviets to the moon? How is it that the US was able to develop a successful multi-stage launch vehicle AFTER being a distant second to the Soviets from 1957 to 1963.
Friedrich Georg claims that it is due in part to the previously unknown work done in Nazi Germany during World War Two. He addresses this matter in HITLER'S MIRACLE WEAPONS: The Secret history of the Rockets and Flying Crafts of the Third Reich Volume 2 - From the V-1 to the A-9. As is obvious by the title, author Georg is writing a multi-volume volume series on german high-level weapons R&D programs. This volume addresses the development tactical and strategic delivery systems for the NBC weapons discussed in his very first volume: HITLER'S MIRACLE WEAPONS: Secret Nuclear Weapons of the Third Reich and their Carrier Systems volume 1 - Luftwaffe and Kriegsmarine.
Using data he claims was unaccessible until after 1990 because it was sequestered in the German Democratic Republic, Georg describes how the German missle programs beginning with the well-known V1 and V2, but then goes own to present information on additional, far more sophiscated vehciles that would have the capability of hiting targets in the US.
He also provides previously unknown information about plans to install V1 and V2 sites in Ilaty as well as the last ditch efforts by the Germans to launch nuclear-tipped missiles at England.
Not limited to text, this book also includes excellent scale drawings and models of the various weapons and delivery systems, as well as what few photographs have survived.
Friedrich Georg should be commended for his diligent attention to detail in relating this fascinating trove of information.
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There has been much debate over the actual state of the German nuclear weapons development program during World War Two. The generally accepted version is that - after losing its top native researchers (most of whom were Jewish) as well as many from occuppied countries - the German program was unable to muster the intellectual and econmic muscle needed to do what was done in America by the Manhattan Project.
And yet, with the war in Europe over, those self-same intellectually challenged scientists while held in detention were recorded as understanding exactly what had happened after being told of Hiroshima.
These raises the question of what was the true status of the German nuclear weapons program.
Friedrich Georg addresses this issue in HITLER'S MIRACLE WEAPONS: Secret Nuclear Weapons of the Third Reich and their Carrier Systems volume 1 - Luftwaffe and Kriegsmarine. As is obvious by the title, author Georg is writing a multi-volume volume series on german high-level weapons R&D programs. This volume addresses the development of nuclear, biological and chemical (NBC) weapons as well as the delivery systems that would be required.
Using data he claims was unaccessible until after 1990 because it was sequestered in the German Democratic Republic, Georg describes how the NBC programs were hidden within a bureaucratic miasma of mutually exclusive self-sustaining entities which allowed for plausible denial both within the Third Reich and without in terms of post-war contact with the Allies. The sources he cites also contain extensive files on the modification of existing weapons delivery systems (bf-109s, He-177s, U-boats, etc.) and the development of new systems (piggy-back aircraft combinations, surface to surface and submarine launched ballistic missiles) to deleiver the NBC weapons both the UK and the USA.
Not limited to text, this book also includes excellent scale drawings and actual models of the various weapons and delivery systems, as well as what few photographs have survived.
Friedrich Georg should be commended for his diligent attention to detail in relating this fascinating trove of information.
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Friedrich Georg's two-volume set Hitler's Miracle Weapons is also an excellent recommendation for in-depth military library holdings. Volume 1, The Luftwaffe And Kriegsmarine, describes the design and research of carrier systems for the nuclear weapons the Nazis were developing. An outline of their weapons program is accompanied by a survey of the craft the Luftwaffe adapted and put into action in anticipation of their project.
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