What was the Hindenburg?
(2014)
By:
Pascal, Janet B.
Nonfiction
Book
Series:
Call Numbers:
J/PAPERBACK/SERIES/WHAT
J/387.742/PASCAL,J
J/387.742/PASCAL,J
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
New York : Grosset & Dunlap, an Imprint of Penguin Group (USA) LLC, [2014]
DESCRIPTION
108 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 20 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9780448481197 (paperback), 0448481197 (paperback), 9780606361866 (prebind), 0606361863 (prebind)
LANGUAGE
English
SERIES
NOTES
What was the Hindenburg? -- Dreaming of flight -- Lighter than air -- The earliest zeppelins -- The world's first airline -- Zeppelins in the war -- No more zeppelins for Germany -- The golden age -- The Hindenburg -- A magical flight -- The final voyage -- A torch in midair -- What went wrong? -- The death of the zeppelin
Describes the history of the Hindenburg airship and its fateful flight from Germany to the United States in 1937, when it burst into flames upon arrival, and details the decline of the use of airships for commercial transportation
Age 8-12
770L