Read the review from Uboat.net!
On June 8, 1944, two days after the successful Allied landing at Normandy, Adolph Hitler authorized the immediate escalation of the German rocket program.He also agrees to an audacious plan to bombard the American east coast with both land and water-borne V-2 rockets - in hopes the devastation wrought will bring the United States to the negotiating table.
Chosen to carry out this desperate scheme is Lothar Stahl, a former U-boat ace who had been banished from command after running afoul of Propaganda Minister Goebbels in 1941. His career resurrected by the newly-crowned Grand Admiral of the German Navy - and his uncle, Karl Doenitz - Stahl is to oversee the transportation of the lethal rockets in specially designed U-boats to a secret base on an island off southern Nova Scotia. Once landed, they will be directed toward coastal American cities.
Having lost an arm while commanding a landing party during the botched Canadian raid at Dieppe in August 1942, Wyn Parsons struggles to resume his life on the southern Nova Scotia shore. A loner who has to deal with local gossip that he was a coward on the day of the ill-fated attack, Parsons is the only member of his small community who is not convinced that the Nationalist Norwegians manning the new weather station on Raddall Island are who they claim to be.
While patrolling off the coast of Nova Scotia, US Coast Commander Gus Lanton, a veteran of the great Atlantic convoy wars of 1942 and ‘43, has his ship torpedoed and is rescued by Wyn Parsons. When the Nazi plan becomes clear to them, they enlist the help of the lighthouse keeper and his daughter, Jesse, to help them alert the authorities. However, they must elude a contingent of Waffen SS soldiers first and they find an unlikely ally in the process.
Based on recently declassified US Coast Guard documents, Rockets of the Reich reveals one of the worst fears of President Roosevelt and the American military leaders of the time: “Could the “Blitz” that is now terrorizing London be duplicated on American cities?”
Reviews
Uboat.net Website: http://uboat.net/books/reviews