Rocket

New York: Philosophical Library, 1957. Presumed First U. S. Edition, First printing. Hardcover. Good/Good. 190, [2] pages. Illustrations. Appendices. Index. DJ has wear, soiling, chips and tear. Air Chief Marshal Sir Philip Bennet Joubert de la Ferté, KCB, CMG, DSO (21 May 1887 - 21 January 1965) was a senior commander in the Royal Air Force during the 1930s and the World War II. At the start of the Second World War, Joubert de la Ferté was Air Officer Commanding Air Forces in India. On his return to Britain he occupied a number of senior staff appointments and returned to his former post as Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief Coastal Command. It was there that he pioneered several innovations. These included Planned Flying and Maintenance and the introduction of a torpedo version of the Beaufighter. In February 1943 he became an Inspector-General of the RAF. On 23 November 1943, Joubert de la Ferté was appointed as the Deputy Chief of Staff (Information and Civil Affairs) at the South East Asia Command. Two years later on 14 November 1945, Joubert de la Ferté retired from the RAF. Frontis photograph of an early rocket blasting off. Other illustrations also. Rocket history seen from an Allied point of view. Interesting and scarce historical information. The first part of this book is historical and sets out to trace the development of rockets and rocket propulsion to the point where the threat to Britain's security from Hitler's V-1 and V-2 weapons was brought to nothing by the counter-measures of the Allies. The second part is written to analyze the effects, political and military, that long-range rockets carrying atomic or nuclear warheads can have on the policies of those nations that can produce and use them.