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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Book in excellent unread/unused condition. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> Hitler’s V-1 and much larger V-2 rockets added a terrifying extra dimension to the Second World War and seriously threatened the Allies’ hopes of victory. Once launched there was little that could stop the V-1s and absolutely nothing to prevent the V-2s reaching their targets. Both were indiscriminate and struck with little or no warning. Their destructive power was awesome but it was their psychological impact on the defenceless civil population that posed such a threat to national morale. Thus the hunt for and neutralization of the V weapons’ secret factories and launch sites adopted the highest Allied priority. Photo recce and air photography were crucial to detecting these deadly weapons V Weapons Hunt tells through its images and informative text the story of the Allied discovery understanding and campaign against the insidious Vengeance weapons. Written by a highly respected intelligence analyst and aerial photo interpreter the book picks out the air photographs many previously unpublished that led to the break-through in and execution of this vital campaign. For example the reader sees the first sighting of a V-1 flying bomb at the Peenemunde research facility weapon launch sites production installations as well as the damage caused by Allied raids. This scholarly and authoritative work which is most unlikely to be bettered reveals how air photographic intelligence provided the information to defeat this insidious threat before it caused not only massive destruction but the indefinite postponement of victory. (MP)