Paperback. Black cover with white title.

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An increasingly rare book.

This book covers the whole gamut of secret weapons from the “Battle of the Beams” to the well documented jets of the Luftwaffe. The style of the book is not only very informative but it also captures the drama & the interpersonal rivalries. An excellent example of the latter is that of the dismissive response of Lord Cherwell to the reports that the Germans had developed rockets. He even went so far as to claim that at the end of the war these would prove to be as non-existent as mare’s nests! What is not recorded is what his response eventually was to the discovery that these Vergeltungswaffen actually existed!

In spite of being the best known of German secret weapons, the little known fact that it was not Hitler’s insistence that the Me262 be able to function as a bomber but the more prosaic reason of the defective design & lack of vital metals that played a more significant role in its inoperability, the life of the Junker’s Juno engine being only 15 hours.

An original book from the library gathered by the famous Cambridge Don, computer scientist, food and wine connoisseur, Jack Arnold LANG. In 2008, Jack was one of the co-founders of the Raspberry Pi Foundation, alongside other members of the Department, and acted as the Foundation’s Chair. The project’s original goals were modest: to build and distribute low-cost computers for prospective applicants to our Computer Science degree. Initially the project was a “success disaster”, as Jack would say, as demand far outstripped the low-scale manufacturing plans. Ultimately the Raspberry Pi became the UK’s most successful computer with more than 60 million sold to date. Jack was drawn to the educational possibilities of the Raspberry Pi, its potential uses in emerging economies and the way it could support self-directed learning.