Rocket.

Popular account of jet propulsion for middle and older school-age readers, from the state children’s publishing house. Eight chapters cover the rocket as weapon, the science of the rocket, the rocket engine, the interwar years, the rocket at war, the new aircraft engine, jet aircraft, and a look into the future, with a short conclusion. The preface honors the Russian pioneers Konstantinov and Tsiolkovsky and the wartime Katyusha rocket launchers, and the text carries portraits of Kibalchich and Zhukovsky.

Illustrated with photographs of rocket batteries and rocket-armed aircraft, engine diagrams, and a V-1 cutaway. Cover and vignettes by K. Artseulov. Liapunov’s later Rockets (1950, Catalog D) from the same publisher is also in the collection.