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By Martin Middlebrook
At the evening of 17-18 August 1943, RAF Bomber Command attacked a distant examine institution at the German Baltic coast. the location was once Peenemünde, the place Hitler's scientists have been constructing either the V-1 flying bomb and the V-2 rocket whose harmful powers can have swung the process the warfare. The raid was once meticulously deliberate and hopes have been excessive. however the evening sky was once so cloudless that the British bombers provided a simple goal for German evening warring parties, and over forty have been misplaced. Martin Middlebrook attracts at the stories of over four hundred humans taken with the dramatic occasions on that evening: RAF and Luftwaffe aircrew, German team of workers on the examine website and overseas labourers who have been pressured to paintings there. the result's a very compelling account of this detrimental try and disrupt Hitler's V-weapons programme.
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