Messerschmitt Me 328 Development & Politics by Dan Sharp

The first title in the 'Development & Politics' series was Messerschmitt Me 262. Then there was Messerschmitt Me 309 and now this one - Messerschmitt Me 328. However, due to unforeseen circumstances I've ended up leapfrogging myself and Messerschmitt Me 328 has beaten its predecessor to print!
While Me 309's pages are currently being designed (though this final stage won't take long), Me 328 is already at the printers and should be available very soon.

Pre-order: Messerschmitt Me 328 Development & Politics

Author: Dan Sharp
Imprint: Tempest Books
ISBN: 9781911704201
Format: Hardback
Pages: 188
Published: May 24, 2024 (probably sooner, in fact)

There was huge excitement when Argus engineer Günther Diedrich succeeded in building a pulsejet powerful enough to propel a car up to 100km/h in 1941 – it was simple, cheap and lightweight, and before long Germany’s premier fighter manufacturer Messerschmitt had come up with a simple, cheap and lightweight airframe on which to mount it – the Me 328.

The new aircraft was first pitched as an interceptor, then as a parasite bomber for attacks on America, then as an airborne version of the infamous Soviet Katyusha rocket launcher, to fire heavyweight rocket-bombs at Allied shipping. Prototypes were built and flown both as gliders and under pulsejet power, and when Nazi fanatics needed an aircraft suitable for suicide attacks against high-value Allied targets, their first choice was the Me 328. Yet the type never fulfilled the grandiose ambitions of those who designed, built and supported it.

Dan Sharp unravels a development history that was anything but straightforward to find out exactly what happened to the Luftwaffe’s most enigmatic ‘secret project’ aircraft. Messerschmitt Me 328 Development & Politics is based on extensive archival research of contemporary German documents and includes numerous previously unpublished period drawings as well as 50 new full colour profile artworks.

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