The phrase 'German Secret Weapons' immediately conjures up images of the V-1 and V-2 missiles used against London in 1944. But what of the V-3 and V-4? What of the Schmetterling, the Röchling shell, the Kurt bomb, the Hs 293? These, and many other devices, were all part of the German secret arsenal and are described and reviewed in Ian Hogg's new book: German Secret Weapons of the Second World War The Missiles, Rockets, Weapons and New Technology of the Third Reich The sheer magnitude of the secret weapon projects of the Third Reich is revealed in this comprehensive study written by one of the world's great experts on weaponry, which captures both the reality behind the weapons actually produced and the intentions behind projects still in their infancy when the war ended. German Secret Weapons of the Second World War discusses the mutliplicity of ideas, the difficulties, and, in several cases, how these ideas were subsequently exploited by the victors. A selection from the List of Contents shows the wide-ranging nature of German weapons, experiments and developments: Chapter 1: The Vengeance Weapons V-1 to V-4 Chapter 2: War in the Air: Aircraft Rocket Fighters, Fighter Aircraft, Bombers, and Jet Aircraft Chapter 3: War in the Air: Weapons Recoilless Guns, Vertical Battery Guns, Rockets, Glide Bombs, Guided Missiles, Proximity Fuzes, the Whirlwind Cannon, the Sound Cannon, the Electric Gun and the Short Time Barrage Chapter 4: Artillery Taper and Squeeze Bore Guns, Rocket Assisted and Athodyd Shells, the Cross Channel Gun Chapter 5: War at Sea Chapter 6: Nuclear and Chemical Weapons There is also a special Appendix of code names. Back to Greenhill Military Book News No. 86 Table of Contents Back to Greenhill Military Book News List of Issues Back to Master Magazine List © Copyright 1998 by Greenhill Books This article appears in MagWeb (Magazine Web) on the Internet World Wide Web. Other military history articles and gaming articles are available at http://www.magweb.com