Prologue: Summer 1943 --
1.
Birth of the Missile --
2.
Founding of Peenemunde --
3.
Breakthrough in Key Technologies --
4.
Peenemunde's Time of Troubles --
5.
Hitler Embraces the Rocket
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6.
Speer, Himmler, and Slave Labor --
7.
Move Underground --
8.
Rockets, Inc. --
Epilogue: Peenemunde's Legacy --
Appendix 1. The German Army Ordnance Liquid-Fuel Rocket Series --
Appendix 2. Organizational Structures of the Army Rocket Program.
The story behind one of the greatest engineering feats of World War II. The Rocket and the Reich is the paradoxical tale of the creation of a technology that would prove so valuable to Allied powers after the war but ultimately proved a failure to the Germans during it. Two 8-page photo inserts; 6 maps and diagrams.
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