Target London - Under attack from the V-weapons during WWII

This excellent book captures it all. There's a superb account of the codebreakers at Bletchley and the aerial-photograph analysts at Medmenham. Campbell puts it all together beautifully. Informationen zum Autor Christy Campbell is an award-winning author and journalist who has written more than eight books of contemporary history, including the bestselling Band of Brigands Klappentext Every whisper built a picture of the threat to come - weapons that were terrifying in their murderous capabilities During the darkest days of the Second World War, the Allies listened intently to the messages of the enemy. Thousands of encoded messages were broken by Ultra, the code-breaking operation at Bletchley Park. These messages helped the Allies to make sense of the scrambled communications from the slave workers tasked with building Hitler's V-weapons, and the French, Danish and Polish agents who risked all to report on them. Target London is the dramatic tale of the inception of the German V-weapons, the Allies' epic race to discover the truth about them and the rockets' devastating effects on the streets of London. 'An accomplished study' Peter Conradi, The Sunday Times 'Detailed and well-researched . . . he has some fascinating material on London's response to this onslaught' Dominic Sandbrook, The Scotsman 'Campbell has produced a comprehensive account of the V-weapon campaign . . . The writing is clear and the story compelling' Michael Sherborne, Mail on Sunday 'Campbell conveys these parallel narratives with suspense in a tale that contains numerous twists' Christopher Silvester, Express * The stunningly dramatic true story of the threat to London from Nazi Germany's V-rockets, from their inception and invention to their effect on our city streets Zusammenfassung * The stunningly dramatic true story of the threat to London from Nazi Germany's V-rockets, from their inception and invention to their effect on our city streets...

Product details

• Authors: Christy Campbell, Campbell Christy
• Publisher: Abacus
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 17.01.2013
• EAN: 9780349123561
• ISBN: 978-0-349-12356-1
• No. of pages: 544
• Dimensions: 200 mm x 130 mm x 37 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; History, HISTORY / Europe / Germany, European History, Germany, HISTORY / General, HISTORY / Military / General, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, HISTORY / Military / Weapons, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / 20th Century, British & Irish history, c 1938 to c 1946 (World War Two period), Modern warfare, c 1939 to c 1945 (including WW2), Weapons & equipment, Weapons and equipment, History / Wars & Conflicts / World War II / European Theater