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The Peenemeunde Raid
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Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #1851353 in Books
- Published on: 1999-12-07
- Original language: English
- Binding: Hardcover
- 265 pages
Editorial Reviews
Synopsis
Describes a precision bombing raid by the RAF against the Nazi rocket research center in Peenemunde.
About the Author
Following his first book, The First Day on the Somme, Martin Middlebrook has published a series of books on major turning points in the two World Wars - all classics of military history.
Customer Reviews
A readable account of a single RAF bombing raid on Germany.
Making heavy use of original interview material, Middlebrook's style in the telling of this story will be familiar to those who have read his other books, e.g. The Nuremburg Raid, or those on WWI by Lyn Macdonald. I found I wanted more from the book than the wordy, unironic narrative style allowed and came to regard the author as something of a 'trainspotting' historian, the word 'interesting' appearing a little too often. Nonetheless, the book paints a vivid and grim picture of a single raid to destroy the German rocket development plant. For a modern analysis of RAF Bomber Command's actions and development in WWII I recommend 'Bomber Command' by Max Hastings.
