V2 by Major-General Walter Dornberger.

V2 by Major-General Walter Dornberger.

Publisher: Hurst & Blackett, London, 1954. FIRST BRITISH EDITION. 
Translated from the German.

Good hardback with no jacket. Binding firm, some rubbing, bumping, scratches, scuffs and marks, creasing and fading to spine, no inscriptions, foxing to end-papers and edges.
264 pages, illustrated.

The V2 rocket with the development name Aggregat-4 (A4), was the world's first practical, modern ballistic missile. The missile, powered by a liquid-propellant rocket engine, was developed during the Second World War in Nazi Germany as a "vengeance weapon" and assigned to attack Allied cities as retaliation for the Allied bombings of German cities. After an altitude of 100km was selected to define the edge of space, the V2 rocket also became retroactively the first artificial object to travel into space with the vertical launch of MW 18014 on 20 June 1944.

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