How close were the Nazis to developing an atomic bomb? The truth is that National Socialist Germany could not possibly have built a weapon like the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima or Nagasaki.

By Christmas 1944, German cities were in ruins from Allied ... from the first air raid siren in September 1939 to the final bomb – the V1 rocket - on Christmas Eve 1944. Neil Anderson, author ...

Photo: A V-1 pilotless flying bomb on its launching platform, circa 1944. The background has been retouched by German censors. (Getty Images) Throughout the war, the Nazis were secretly developing ...

This volume of Dickens contains a piece of shrapnel from a V1 flying bomb, or doodle-bug,that fell on Landseer Close, Edgware in August 1944.The shrapnel entered the spine and is embedded in the book.