num_pages: 320
description: With a gift for visionary fiction that would make Robert A. Heinlein proud ( Entertainment Weekly ) three-time Hugo Award-winning author Allen Steele now imagines an alternate history rooted in an actual historical what if the race to space had occurred in the early days of WWII? It's 1941 and Wernher von Braun is ordered by his Fuehrer to abandon the V2 rocket and turn German resources in a daring new construction of a manned orbital spacecraft capable of attacking the U.S. Work on the rocketcalled Silbervogel begins at Peenemunde. Though it is top secret British intelligence discovers the plan and brings word to Franklin Roosevelt. The American President determines that there is only one logical the U.S. must build a spacecraft capable of intercepting Silbervogel and destroying it. Robert Goddard inventor of the liquid-fuel rocket agrees to head the classified project.So begins a race against timebetween two secret military programs and two brilliant scientists whose high-stakes competition will spiral into a deadly game of political intrigue and unforeseen catastrophes played to the death in the brutal skies above America.
language: English
title: V-S Day
publisher: Ace