V2 with Robert Harris
Dan Snow's History Hit
History Hit
4.7 • 13.7K Ratings
🗓️ 21 September 2020
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
Robert Harris joined me on the podcast to talk about Nazi Germany and the story of the V2 rocket.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everybody, welcome to Dan Snow's History Hit. |
| 0:05.0 | We've got an absolute cork rule. |
| 0:06.7 | We've got one of the, we're going to rock star, a global rock star of writing historical |
| 0:10.1 | fiction. |
| 0:11.1 | He's been in the 30 years. |
| 0:12.1 | He's had monster best sellers. |
| 0:13.6 | They've made movies out of his books. |
| 0:15.4 | They've made all sorts of things. |
| 0:16.9 | He's famous for Fatherland, a book imagining what would happen if Germany won the Second |
| 0:21.9 | World War. |
| 0:22.9 | He's Robert Harris. |
| 0:23.9 | He's just written a new book, V2. |
| 0:25.6 | It's out now. |
| 0:27.4 | The terror weapon, the V2, that pummeled London, the ballistic rocket carrying a one-ton |
| 0:33.1 | warhead at three times the speed of sound that Hitler believed would win the war, but in |
| 0:36.9 | fact did nothing of the kind. |
| 0:38.7 | Probably hasten Germany's defeat in the war. |
| 0:40.3 | For reasons you're about to hear. |
| 0:42.0 | Robert Harris is a brilliant novelist, a brilliant commentator, brilliant writer. |
| 0:46.1 | Enjoy this podcast. |
| 0:47.1 | If you want to listen to other podcasts about the Second World War, of course we've got lots |
| 0:50.4 | of our back catalog available at History Hit TV. |
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