V2, Robert Harris
Hutchinson, $32.99
This novel’s foundations are all closely based in fact: the Nazis did indeed come up with the frightening V2, the world’s first long-range guided ballistic missile. They really did use it to bomb London, killing over 2750 civilians, and there really was a contingent of British WAAF officers based in Belgium and working on ways to combat the V2 attacks. But Harris’s two main characters, a clever and pragmatic WAAF officer and an engineer whose skills are being used by the Nazis, are creatures of his imagination and their parallel narratives show what…
