The story of airships from Zeppelins to the cargo carriers of the new millennium.
Launched in 1936, the "Hindenberg" was Hitler's choice as a symbol of the might that was the Third Reich. Even before test flights had been completed, Herman Goering ordered the airship to be sent on a propaganda tour of Germany, an airborne reminder of the fact that the Fatherland had risen from the ashes of defeat like a phoenix rising from the ashes of a fire. Having risen from the fire, the "Hindenburg" was to return to fire, a tragic reminder of the frailty of human existence and a warning to all who would conspire to cheat nature.
Contains colour and black-and-white photographs.
