Author: Ogley, Bob,
Title: DOODLEBUGS AND ROCKETS - The Battle of the Flying Bombs.
Description: Froglets Publications, Westerham, 1992, 1st edn., 208pp, title page map, maps, diagrams, half tone and coloured ills. in text, large landscape format (8.5 x 10.5 inches approx.), white cloth lettered in gilt at spine, coloured pictorial dustwrapper by Geoff Nutkins, an account of the V1 flying bomb and V2 rocket attacks on Great Britain which started just six days after the D-Day landings, of no real military significance but remembered vividly by those within range, with a wealth of photographs, maps and diagrams alongside stories of those of the civilians bombed, the defenders and rescuers as well as the RAF raids on the launch sites and the fighters who shot down some of the V1's, slight sunning to edges, faint spill marks at fore-edge and faintly into fore-margin of title, dustwrapper: price clipped, lightly rubbed at tips, very good in a very good plus dustwrapper,

Keywords: war ww2 home front doodle bugs v1 v2 rockets flying bombs


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