Author Chris Ransted published the book “Disarming Hitlers V Weapons: Bomb Disposal, the V1 and V2 rockets” in 2013. This appears to be the first publication by Mr. Ransted.

I categorize this book as ‘PG’ because it contains scenes of Violence. The book looks at the challenge of dealing with Hitler’s “vengeance” weapons, the V-1s and V-2s. These were primarily targeted at the UK. Some also landed in areas of Europe freed by Allied forces.

The book addresses how Bomb Disposal teams rendered the V-weapons safe. They also attempted to uncover the technical secrets contained in these new weapons.

I enjoyed the 6.5 hours I spent reading this 256-page history. I was surprised at how many of these weapons failed to explode. The book also gives quite a bit of detail on how the Bomb Disposal teams dealt with the weapons. I like the chosen cover art. I give this book a 4 out of 5.
 
Further Reading/Listening on German ‘Terror’ weapons
1 Hitler’s Plan To Destroy NYC
 
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I have read prior books on Nazi raids on Britain before. Those books have mentions V1 and V2 bombs but did not focus on BD team.

From prior knowledge of Nazi history, this book helped me understand the terror people faced during this era. The bombs were large in size and destructive by impact. The BD team spend uncountable times to defuse these bombs without harm. Many have lost lives, learning to defuse the bombs.

I really enjoyed this book. The information is well researched and focused on V1 and V2 bombs. It gives homage to the BD team who gave up their time and sacrifice to clean up communities where bombs have fallen.

In addition, there are pictures of the actual bombs in the book.

Only downside I have discovered is that information presented is dry and factual. If you are not interested in this topic, it may be hard to read.

Highly recommending to read (1) if you are very interested in this topic or (2) after you read about Nazi bomb raid on Britain.

I have come to the conclusion that there are two types of historians. There are those who relish the minutiae of details and there are those who look for the personal stories and social impact. I fall squarely in the latter. To me, history is the story of people at a certain time and place. I preface my review with this as my biggest disappointment in this book is there was so much of the former and too little of the latter. That being said, there are going to be many people who fall into the other category who will be delighted with the parsing of the technical bits.

I was delighted when we were told the stories of the people who so bravely dismantled these weapons as well as some of the people whose lives were impacted by them. When I think of those weapons, I had focused solely on the impact in London and other parts of England. I did not really follow the story through D-Day and into post-war Europe. I had been aware of the cat and mouse game that was played as site after site was captured and the Germans needed to retreat. But the story was well told and documented of those who continued to try to out-fox the scientists creating them.

So, for someone who looks for the technical details and less human interest, I suspect the rating would be much higher. For me, I would give it a three and a half out of five for the reasons articulated above.