German Secret Weapons of the Second World War: The Missiles, Rockets, Weapons and New Technology of the Third Reich

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Pub. Date: 2002-10-01
Publisher(s): Motorbooks Intl
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Summary

The phrase "German secret weapons" immediately conjures up images of the V-

Table of Contents

List of Photographs
7(1)
List of Line Drawings
8(1)
Introduction 9(8)
The V Weapons
17(35)
Vergeltungswaffe 1
17(10)
Reichenberg
27(1)
Vergeltungswaffe 2
28(6)
The A4 design
34(9)
The High Pressure Pump
43(8)
V-4?
51(1)
Aircraft
52(10)
Messerschmitt 163
52(1)
The Luftwaffe's Viper
53(3)
Dornier's Arrow
56(1)
New bombers
57(1)
Jet engines
58(1)
Messerschmitt 262
59(1)
Arado 234
59(1)
The People's Fighter
60(2)
Air-Launched Weapons
62(33)
Recoilless guns
62(2)
Gerat 104 and Sondergerat 113A
64(2)
Bordwaffen
66(2)
Air-to-ground rockets
68(1)
Fritz-X
69(3)
Henschel 293
72(3)
Hs 293 variants
75(5)
Other Henschel designs
80(3)
Anti-ship weapons
83(2)
Hagelkorn
85(1)
Mistel
86(2)
Air-to-air weapons
88(5)
Kurt, Germany's Dambuster?
93(2)
Air Defence Weapons
95(28)
Bigger and better guns
95(2)
All wind and noise
97(1)
Electric power
98(2)
Anti-aircraft rockets
100(2)
Anti-aircraft missiles
102(8)
Enzian
110(6)
Rheintochter
116(4)
Feuerlilie
120(3)
Artillery
123(49)
The taper-bore guns
123(4)
Gustav and Dora
127(19)
Adam, Eve, Odin, Thor, Loki and Ziu
146(2)
K5 Glatt; the 150km cannon
148(4)
K12; the cross-Channel gun
152(2)
Small shells for big guns
154(4)
Rocket artillery
158(4)
The Rochling shell
162(1)
Other aspects of ammunition design
163(9)
The Sea War
172(6)
Torpedoes
174(1)
New U-Boats
175(1)
Fast attack craft
175(1)
Midget submarines
176(2)
Nuclear and Chemical Warfare
178(41)
The nuclear bomb
178(5)
Chemical warfare
183(7)
Biological warfare
190(2)
Appendices
1. The Special List
192(7)
2. German Code Names
199(20)
Index 219

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