In the summer of 1944, on the occupied roads of rural Poland, a handful of resistance fighters dressed in enemy uniforms carried the dismantled bones of Hitler's most fearsome weapon past the very soldiers sworn to protect it. Guy Walters' 'Stealing Hitler's Rocket' recovers this nearly forgotten operation — a race between Allied desperation and Nazi terror — and places it where it belongs: among the quiet, mortal acts of courage that quietly bent the arc of the war. The story endures not merely as adventure, but as a meditation on what ordinary people will risk when history asks everything of
Stealing Hitler's Rocket: A Thrilling WWII Heist of Nazi's Ultimate Weapon
V-2 rockets killed civilians with no warning; the smuggling operation risked instant death if discovered by Nazi soldiers.