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books.gif Collier, Basil. The Battle of the V-Weapons. New York: Morrow, 1965. Out of print.

Dornberger, Walter. V-2. New York: Viking Press, 1954. 281 p. Out of print. $?.

Dornberger, Walter. Peenemünde: Die Geschichte der V-Waffen. $?.

DeVorkin, David H. Science with a Vengeance: How the Military Created the US Space Sciences after World War II. New York: Springer-Verlag, 1992. 404 p. $39.95.

Engelmann, Joachim. V2: Dawn of the Rocket Age. Schiffer Pub. Ltd., 1990. $10.80.

Garlinski, Jozef. Hitler's Last Weapons: The Underground War Against the V1 and V2. New York: Times Books, 1978. 244 p. Out of print.

Garstens, Martin Aaron; Newell, Homer Edward; and Siry, J.W. (Eds.) Upper Atmosphere Research Report No. 1. Washington, DC: Naval Research Laboratory, 1946.

Holsken, Dieter. V Missiles of the Third Reich. Washington, DC: Smithsonian. 352 p. Good, well-illustrated book. $49.95.

Huzel, Dieter K. Peenemünde to Canaveral. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1962. Personal account of the German wartime V2 rocket. Told by an engineer associated with the project who, in the last days of WWII, was entrusted to hide the V2 documents in an abandoned mine in the Harz Mountains. Also offers a first-hand picture of the days of desperation and hardship endured by the German people during the final days of the War. $45.

Irving, David John Cawdell. The Mares Nest. Boston, MA: Little, Brown, 1965. 320 p. History of German World War II aerial operations, including the V-2 rocket. Out of print.

Kennedy, Gregory P. Vengeance Weapon 2: The V-2 Guided Missile. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1983. 87 p. Includes bibliography. Out of print. $?.

Lasby, Clarence G. Project Paperclip. New York: Atheneum, 1971. $?.

McGovern, James. Crossbow and Overcast. New York: W. Morrow, 1964. Out of print.

Neufeld, Michael J. The Rocket and the Reich: Peenemünde and the Coming of the Ballistic Missile Era. New York: Free Press, 1994. 368 p. $15.95.


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