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The slightly overheated title gives an inaccurate first impression of the book. It's a serious piece of scholarship, rooted in primary sources, that covers the development, deployment, and effect of the V-1 cruise missile and V-2 ballistic missile. Irons tells the story in detail, and is careful to include its less spectacular aspects (production, logistics, cost) as well as the now-(relatively)-familiar stories of crumbling buildings and daredevil pilots chasing down V-1s and "tipping" them to upset their primitive guidance systems. The book concludes with several valuable appendices, including tables of statistics and a reprint of an Allied report on the V-weapons' effectiveness.

If you're interested primarily in the V-weapons as weapons, rather than in the political and ethical dimensions of the V-2 program or its role as a precursor to space travel, this is the book for you.