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The race for Hitler's X-planes : Britain's 1945 mission to capture secret Luftwaffe technology

John Christopher (Author)
John Christopher tells the story of the 1945 British mission to Germany to capture the Nazis' secret advanced aviation technology ahead of the Americans and Russians, a technology that would define the balance of power in the phoney peace of the Cold War, launching an arms race that shaped the modern world for decades to come

Print Book, English, 2013
History Press, Stroud, Gloucestershire, 2013