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Act of Oblivion - the brand new thriller from Robert Harris, available now 'Immersive' Guardian 'Stunning' Daily Express 'Riveting' Telegraph Victory is close. Vengeance is closer. Rudi Graf used to dream of sending a rocket to the moon. Instead, he has helped to create the world's most sophisticated weapon: the V2 ballistic missile, capable of delivering a one-ton warhead at three times the speed of sound. In a desperate gamble to avoid defeat in the winter of 1944, Hitler orders ten thousand to be built. Graf is tasked with firing these lethal 'vengeance weapons' at London. Kay Caton-Walsh is an officer in the Women's Auxiliary Air Force who joins a unit of WAAFs on a mission to newly liberated Belgium. Armed with little more than a slide rule and a few equations, Kay and her colleagues will attempt to locate and destroy the launch sites. As the death toll soars, Graf and Kay fight their grim, invisible war - until one final explosion of violence causes their destinies to collide... 'A riveting read with a corker of a twist' Daily Telegraph 'Supremely readable' Observer 'Delivers one hell of a punch' Express 'Captures the real nature of war. Gripping' Ben MacIntyre
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V2, Robert Harris
- Langue
- Année de publication
- 2021
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- Titre
- V2
- Langue
- Anglais
- Auteurs
- Robert Harris
- Éditeur
- Cornerstone
- Publié
- 2021
- Format
- souple
- ISBN10
- 1787460983
- ISBN13
- 9781787460980
- Séries
- Mots clés
- Fiction, Thème historique, Polars & Thrillers, Romans historiques, Thriller, Allemagne, Prose de guerre, Guerres, Seconde Guerre mondiale, Mort, Angleterre, Grande-Bretagne, Londres, Violence, Nazisme, Basé sur des faits réels, Pays-Bas, Troisième Reich (Allemagne nazie), 1933-1945, Culpabilité, Résistance, rébellion, Services secrets, RAF - Royal Air Force, Année 1944, Bombardement, Thrillers Historiques, Projets secrets et armes du Troisième Reich
- Première publication
- 2020
- Titre original
- V2
- Évaluation
- 3,85 sur 5
- Description
- Act of Oblivion - the brand new thriller from Robert Harris, available now 'Immersive' Guardian 'Stunning' Daily Express 'Riveting' Telegraph Victory is close. Vengeance is closer. Rudi Graf used to dream of sending a rocket to the moon. Instead, he has helped to create the world's most sophisticated weapon: the V2 ballistic missile, capable of delivering a one-ton warhead at three times the speed of sound. In a desperate gamble to avoid defeat in the winter of 1944, Hitler orders ten thousand to be built. Graf is tasked with firing these lethal 'vengeance weapons' at London. Kay Caton-Walsh is an officer in the Women's Auxiliary Air Force who joins a unit of WAAFs on a mission to newly liberated Belgium. Armed with little more than a slide rule and a few equations, Kay and her colleagues will attempt to locate and destroy the launch sites. As the death toll soars, Graf and Kay fight their grim, invisible war - until one final explosion of violence causes their destinies to collide... 'A riveting read with a corker of a twist' Daily Telegraph 'Supremely readable' Observer 'Delivers one hell of a punch' Express 'Captures the real nature of war. Gripping' Ben MacIntyre