"Author James Mills presents an amazing, detailed history review of the German surface-to-air guided missile technology development." --Military ReviewWorld War II saw the appearance of numerous revolutionary armaments on both sides of the conflict that would radically change the nature of warfare, from jet aircraft to the ballistic missile and the atomic bomb. The greatest conflagration in history also saw the conception of the first surface-to-air guided missile systems, technology pioneered by German scientists and engineers through an extensive development program which ran from 1942 to 1945. Although the program did not achieve its main objective - to introduce a functional weapon system into the Luftwaffe air defense network - German research and development in most aspects of the technology was ahead of comparable research in the United Kingdom and the United
