The Race for Hitler's X-Planes
Britain's 1945 Mission to Capture Secret Luftwaffe Technology
Erschienen am 1. Oktober 2012
336 Seiten
978-0-7524-7711-4 (ISBN)
Beschreibung
During World War 2, Hitler's engineers had pioneered an incredible array of futuristic secret weapons, from the Me 262, the first operational jet fighter, to the deadly V2 inter continental ballistic missile. With the Third Reich shattered and lying in ruins, in the summer of 1945, the Allies launched a frantic race to grab what they saw as the justifiable spoils of war. The Americans and Russians in particular were anxious to secure not only the aircraft and the research and production facilities, but also the key German scientists and engineers.
This Nazi technology would define the balance of power in the phoney peace of the Cold War era, launching an arms race that shaped our modern world for decades to come. But what of Britain's role in this supermarket sweep? The Race for Hitler's X-Planes tells the untold story of the British mission to Germany.
This Nazi technology would define the balance of power in the phoney peace of the Cold War era, launching an arms race that shaped our modern world for decades to come. But what of Britain's role in this supermarket sweep? The Race for Hitler's X-Planes tells the untold story of the British mission to Germany.
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Auflage
Digital original
Sprache
Englisch
Verlagsort
Stroud
Großbritannien
Illustrationen
160 Illustrations, black and white
Dateigröße
23,76 MB
ISBN-13
978-0-7524-7711-4 (9780752477114)
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Inhalt
- Intro
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: The Spoils of War
- 1. A Very British Affair
- 2. The Reich in Ruins
- 3. Wings of Change
- 4. Entering the Jet Age
- 5. Pistons and Props
- 6. Dispersal of Production
- 7. A Vision of Hell
- 8. Hitlerâ?Ts Smart Bombs
- 9. Ingenuity and Desperation
- 10. Oberammergau
- 11. Captured Aircraft
- 12. Secrets by the Thousands
- 13. Epilogue
- Appendix 1: Itinerary of the Fedden Mission to Germany, 1945
- Appendix 2: Captured Jet and Rocket Aircraft Removed by the Allies
- Glossary
- Bibliography
