The Rocket and the Reich
Subtitle: Peenemunde and the Coming of the Ballistic Missile Era
Publisher: Free Press
Published: September 1, 1994
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 368
ISBN-13: 9780029228951
Subjects: Ordnance, weapons technology; Weapons & equipment; World history: Second World War; Military History - World War II; Missiles; History - Military / War; History: World; Germany; Military - World War II; Military Science; History / General; General; 20th century; History; Liquid propellant rockets; Manufacture; Ordnance; Research; Rockets (Ordnance)
First sentence: Berlin, October 1929. In the fashionable west end, near the Kurfurstendamm, the entire facade of the UFA Palace movie theater was "covered" with a gigantic animated panel, showing the earth and the moon against a starry sky and a projectile-like moon rocket making round trips between them.