Germany's Secret Weapons of World War II

Jet aircraft, ballistic missiles and super tanks

Roger Ford (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

224 Seiten

2021
Amber Books (Verlag)
978-1-83886-071-4 (ISBN)

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Germany’s Secret Weapons of World War II reveals the extent of German secret weapons’ development, including reference tables, diagrams, colourful maps and charts and photographs, building into an essential reference guide for anyone interested in the history of Germany’s secret weapons programme.

The German Third Reich had one of the most technologically advanced and innovative weapons industries in World War II, with aircraft, tanks and bombs that could match and beat anything else in the world. What is less known is the extent of Germany’s secret weapons development. Germany pioneered rocket and jet-propelled aircraft, the pilotless plane, long-range rocket technology and ‘robot bombs’, and the world’s first super-heavy tanks. Many of these weapons had a real impact on the course of the war.
Following the invasion of the Soviet Union and the realization that the war could continue for years, Hitler put great resources into the development of new and technologically advanced weaponry, in the belief that the production of ‘wonder weapons’ was the key to winning the war. Germany’s Secret Weapons of World War II explores this little-known aspect of the Nazi war machine to reveal the extent of German secret weapons’ development. Broken down by weapon types, the book includes reference tables, diagrams, colourful maps and charts and photographs, presenting all the core data in easy-to-follow formats.
Germany’s Secret Weapons of World War II is an essential reference guide for anyone interested in the history and make-up of Germany’s weapons development.

Roger Ford was an expert on the development of modern weaponry. He is the author of The Tiger Tank and the definitive history of the development and deployment of the machine gun, The Grim Reaper, and of a comprehensive study of close-quarters combat in the twentieth century, The Whites of Their Eyes. He died in 2017.

Introduction

Jet Aircraft

Rocket-powered Aircraft

Hybrid Aircraft and Gliders

Rotary-wing Aircraft

Surface-to-surface Missiles

Air-to-air Missiles

Air-to-surface Missiles

Surface-to-air Missiles

Artillery

Tanks and Anti-tank Weapons

Submarines and their Weapons

Nuclear, Biological and Chemical Weapons

Appendices

Glossary

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	27.01.2021
Reihe/Serie	Illustrated Histories
Zusatzinfo	Index; Charts; Diagrams; Halftones, black and white; Illustrations, color
Sprache	englisch
Maße	208 x 264 mm
Gewicht	600 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► 1918 bis 1945
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Technikgeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
ISBN-10	1-83886-071-1 / 1838860711
ISBN-13	978-1-83886-071-4 / 9781838860714
Zustand	Neuware