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Title: Hindenburg: An Illustrated History by Rick Archbold, Ken Marschall ISBN: 0-446-51784-4 Publisher: Warner Books Pub. Date: October, 1994 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $60.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.75 (8 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Magical Era
Comment: This is the definitive history of the Airship from it's creation to it's untimely demise and of the future.
The Hindenburg has always fascinated people and the it's firey ending at the Lakehurst is now part of aviation fokelore.
This book plots the track of the Airship and mainly focuses on the Rigid Airship and it's humble beginings on Lake Constance, it's role in the First World War and life before the Second.
As typical of Archbold's works, it is beautifully illustrated throughout and is full of all the technical data needed to understand these magnificent machines.
All nations that developed the Airship are covered and their failings are all laid out to bare. The British experience reads of arrogance and even when the great Dr Hugo Eckner offered his assistance, they turned him down. The United States pushed the envelope too far and even though they had the most modern Airships to date, sadly they too would be put off developing a transport network.
In the end it would be Germany with it's conservatisim and experience that would see out the great Airship era with the globetrotting LZ127 Graf Zeppelin and LZ129 Hindenburg, it's life cut short by that tragic day in 1937. If helium had been used, flights would have continued with the last Airship, the new Graf Zepplin LZ130 and it was used for recon flights just before war was going to break out. When the end came, it was swift and sudden and the great Airship era was over.
Rating: 5
Summary: History of the Hindenburg & Other Airships
Comment: To this day, I don't know why I am so fascinated with the Hindenburg, but I do know that she is an amazing airship to study. Her firey crash as well as some other famous crashes (Macon, Akron, Shenandoah, etc.) are discussed, in detail, in this book. So it's not just the Hindenburg's history, but the whole history of airships in general, right down to the present day Goodyear blimp. I've absolutely enjoyed reading this book cover to cover because of the history that has been detailed throughout the career of the airships of the past. "Hindenburg: The Illustrated History" is worth getting for anybody who loves airships or history's great disasters.
Rating: 5
Summary: Outstanding!
Comment: A beautiful (nay, sumptuous) oversized book that bedazzles with both its original paintings and its endless historical illustrations and photographs; but also an excellent introduction to the history of airships, in all countries (that the book is titled "Hindenburg" is unfortunate, as the Hindenburg herself figures into only a small portion of the book). Full but not overwhelming coverage of wartime Zeps is a plus. Both the historian and the fan of 30s art will be deeply pleased.
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Title: Inside the Hindenburg by Mireille Majoor ISBN: 0316123862 Publisher: Little Brown & Company Pub. Date: 01 November, 2000 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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