V-S Day

V-S Day

With a gift for visionary fiction that â€œwould make Robert A. Heinlein proudâ€ (Entertainment Weekly) three-time Hugo Award-winning author Allen Steele now imagines an alternate history rooted in an actual historical possibility: what if the race to space had occurred in the early days of WWII?
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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 direction:Â construction of a manned orbital spacecraft capable of attacking the U.S. Work on the rocketâ€”called Silbervogelâ€”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 response: the U.S. must build aÂ spacecraft capableÂ 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 timeâ€”between 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.
Country USA
Manufacturer Ace
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2014-02-04
Format Kindle eBook

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