Michael Neufeld - The Rocket and the Reich

Text © 1995 by Smithsonian Institution

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First published in hardcover by The Free Press, a division of Simon & Schuster, Inc., 1995

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Neufeld, Michael J.

The rocket and the reich : Peenemunde and the coming of the ballistic missile era. / Michael J. Neufeld

p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references.

eISBN: 978-1-58834-466-3

1. Rockets (Ordnance)—Research—History—20 thcentury. 2. Liquid propellant rockets—Research—History. 3. Ordnance—Manufacture—History—20 thcentury. 4. Germany. Heer. Heeresversuchstelle Peenemunde—History. 5. Pennemunde (Germany)—Manufactures—History. I. Title.

UF535.G3N48 195

355.8’25195’094309044—dc20

94-30088

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