Recognition Handbook of Typical Guided Missiles 1951. This item is unavailable.Recognition Handbook of Typical Guided Missiles 1951

*Sales/posting to the USA suspended*. Card covers, 102pp, b&w photos, diagrams and cutaways. Light wear to card edges, previous owner's name top right of title page; a very good copy. ''MI 10'', or ''Military Intelligence, section 10,'' was a department of the British Directorate of Military Intelligence, part of the War Office. It was responsible for weapons and technical analysis during and after World War II Written at the dawn of the space age and of the Cold War this manual - originally for the use of a restricted circle of intelligence officers - gives a guide to the state of guided missile science at the time. It is inevitably largely based on German sources since the rocket science presided over by Wernher von Braun was by far the most advanced in the world at the end of the war. This bilingual English and Russian guide shows photographs of many German rockets - including the V1 flying bomb and the V2 stratospheric rocket bomb.