05/10/2026
Must Read Monday - Target London
Target London is the gripping, meticulously researched account of one of the most terrifying chapters of the Second World War, N**i Germany’s V-weapons campaign against London.
Investigative historian Christy Campbell weaves together the parallel stories of the German scientists who built them, the Allied intelligence operatives racing to uncover the truth, and the ordinary Londoners who lived, and died, beneath the rockets’ shadow.
Between mid-1944 and the end of the war, over 10,000 V1 flying bombs were launched at London and more than 1,400 V2 rockets reached the UK, and Campbell documents every strand of this extraordinary story with the pace and tension of a thriller.
Hachette described it as writing “with the pace and tension of a thriller” and the story it tells, of intelligence, courage, and an entire city refusing to break, is one that feels urgently local, particularly for readers in South East London where so many of those rockets fell.
Perfect for fans of: Second World War history, Ben Macintyre, Antony Beevor, military history, London history.
đź“– Find it in our history section, essential reading for anyone with an interest in wartime London.
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