DORNBERGER, WALTER; LEY, WILLY - INTRODUCTION; CLEUGH, JAMES; HALLIDAY, GEOFFREY - TRANSLATORS — V-2

New York: The Viking Press, 1955. Second Printing. Hardcover. Second printing of the 1954 first English edition. pp. xvi, [16] plates, xvii-xviii, [2]-281. Index. Sixteen fabulous black and white photographic plates illustrate the V-2 and related personages. "The inside story of Hitler's 'secret weapon' - and the men and events behind it - that almost changed the course of history." - dust jacket. Author was a German General and head of the Peenemunde Rocket Station. Book is clean and unmarked with moderate wear to publisher's green cloth. Binding sound. Average wear to dust jacket which is now preserved in glossy new archival-grade Brodart. A quality copy of this fascinating work. Enser p.373.; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; V-2, Rockets, Rocket Development, German Army, Nazi Weapons, World War II, Peenemunde, Rocket Research, A-4, Werner Von Braun, Thiel Zanssen, Dornberger, Long-Range Bombardment, Test Stand, Solid Fuel Rocket Development, Hydrogen Peroxide, Missiles. Good in Good dust jacket .