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In this study of a long-neglected subject, the author makes constant use of original sources, including contemporary eyewitness accounts. These are woven into a narrative, packed with facts, spiced with anecdote, and ranging over international and political as well as military and navel history.

It is good to see this book back in print ... a distinguished contribution to the canon of alternate histories.

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Home Guard veteran Norman Longmate collects together a wealth of anecdotes and facts into a popular history of the real 'Dad's Army'. Ties in with the release of the new "Dad's Army" film.

In Hitler s Rockets Norman Longmate tells the story of the V-2, the technically brilliant but hated weapon, the ancestor and forerunner of all subsequent ballistic missiles. He reveals the devious power-play within the German armed forces and the Nazi establishment that so influenced the creation of the rockets. He shows through contemporary documents and protagonists accounts how the British intelligence skillfully pieced together often contr...

Norman Longmate served in the army in World War II, and then went to Oxford University in 1947 to read Modern History. He subsequently worked as a Fleet Street journalist, as a producer of history programmes for the BBC, and for the BBC Secretariat. In 1981 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and in 1983 he left the BBC to become a full-time writer. Norman Longmate is the author of more than twenty books, mainly on the Seco...

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