Sledgehammers for Tintacks: Bomber Command Combats the V-1 Menace, 1943 - 1944

by Steve Darlow

In the summer of 1944, in the skies over Southern England, a new era in international warfare began. A German reprisal weapon, called the V1 or 'flying bomb', launched from occupied France, would bring indiscriminate terror and panic to the civilian population of London and the home counties. The German High Command hoped the weapon would not only revenge the Allied bombing of their homeland, but seriously hinder Allied invasion plans. The Allies...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1902304969
• ISBN13: 9781902304960
• Release Date: June 2009
• Publisher: Grub Street Publishing
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.6"