Airships; a popular history of dirigibles, zeppelins, blimps, and other lighter-than-air craft.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Jackson, Robert, 1941- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday, 1973 [1971]
Edition:[1st ed. in the United States of America].
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Birth of a dream
  • A road in the sky
  • Zeppelin, the name that made history
  • The Airship scene in Britain and other countries
  • The Airship at war: Germany, Britain, France, USA, other countries
  • Post-war development in Europe
  • Voyages of discovery
  • The saga of the Graf Zeppelin
  • Britain's lasat airships: triumph and tragedy
  • Military airships in the USA, 1918-38
  • The Hindenburg
  • US Naval Airships in the Second World War and after
  • Airships present and future
  • Appendixes: An airship chronology, 1268-1914
  • An airship chronology, 1914-18
  • An airship chronology, 1918-38
  • An airship chronology, 1940-45
  • Selected bibliography
  • Index.