Hindenburg

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RETURN TO A TIME WHEN SILVER GIANTS RULED THE SKIES
H I N D E N B U R G


he largest flying croft tfie world has ever seen, the Hindenburg was truly a luxury liner of the air. Its passengers voyaged amid oil the comforts of a first-class hotel in an
airship more than three times the size of today's biggest airliners. The image of the Hindenburg
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crashing to the ground in flomes remains one of the most instantly recognizable photographs of the century. Now the extraordinary story of G time when giant silver zeppelins held the promise of the future is vividly recounted in n magnificent volume highlighted by hundreds of stunning paintings and photographs.
HISTORY
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Fülszöveg

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RETURN TO A TIME WHEN SILVER GIANTS RULED THE SKIES
H I N D E N B U R G


he largest flying croft tfie world has ever seen, the Hindenburg was truly a luxury liner of the air. Its passengers voyaged amid oil the comforts of a first-class hotel in an
airship more than three times the size of today's biggest airliners. The image of the Hindenburg
AN ILLUSTRATED
crashing to the ground in flomes remains one of the most instantly recognizable photographs of the century. Now the extraordinary story of G time when giant silver zeppelins held the promise of the future is vividly recounted in n magnificent volume highlighted by hundreds of stunning paintings and photographs.
HISTORY
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"It is burning, bursting into flames this is terrible Oh, the humanity !'"
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, radio reporter's account of the giant Hindenburg crashing to the ground in flames at Lakehurst, New Jersey, remains one of the most famous broadcasts ever made. The Hindenbm-g was truly a flying lavury liner, and her spectacular destruction on May 6, 193 7, marked the end of the great era of airship travel.
Now, in one splendidly illustrated volume, the complete story of Germany's mammoth airship and the other silver giants that once crossed the skies is told as never before. Dozens of paintings, diagrams, black-and-white and color photographs — many of them previously unpublished — convey just what it was like to make a voyage on the largest aircraft ever constructed. In a spectacular three-page fold-out, readers can explore the Hindenburg's passenger decks, from the lounge with its grand piano and the promenades with their panoramic views to the elegant dining room and the airtight smoking room. Ken Marschall's evocative paintings depict some of the great moments in the history of zeppeUns up to the fiery disaster that brought the airship era to an untimely end.
HINDENBURG: An Illustrated History chronicles die complete story of the great dirigibles — from the pioneering efforts of Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin to the brief career of the Hiudaibiirg's litde-known sister ship, the Graf Zeppelin II. At the mm of the cenmry zeppelins established the world's first passenger-carrying airline. But World War I bombing raids over London earned them the label "baby-killers." In the postwar years Great Britain and the United States competed with Germany for the prestige of building the world's most advanced airship. The British envisioned an empire linked by a fleet of silver giants. For the United States Navy, the zeppelin would be a flying aircraft carrier, transporting fighter planes in its belly.
By the late 1920s it seemed that the airship was poised to conquer the skies. In 1926 explorer Roald Amundsen flew across the Arctic Ocean in the dirigible Norge. An ecstatic New York ticker-tape parade greeted the Graf Zeppelin at the end of her pioneering 1929 round-the-world flight. The Graf soon went on to establish the first ever nonstop transadantic air service.
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