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Benoit, Peter

Summary: Describes the crash of the Hindenburg airship in 1937, relaying the history of international airship flight and the events leading to the disaster, and explains what measures have been taken to make airship travel safer.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Children's Press 2011

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 363.12 BEN

Summary: On May 6, 1937, the Hindenburg, the world's largest airship, ignited in a giant fireball as it prepared to land at Lakehurst, New Jersey - a disaster immortalized by searing newsreel footage and Herbert Morrison's unforgettable 'Oh, the humanity!' commentary. The chain of events that ignited Hindenburg's hydrogen remains one of the biggest mysteries in aviation history.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2021

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV HIN

Burton, Anthony

Summary: This book tells the often dramatic and always fascinating story of flight in lighter than air machines. For centuries man had dreamed of flying, but all attempts failed, until in 1782 the Montgolfier brothers constructed the world's first hot air balloon The following year saw the first ascent with aeronauts - not human beings but a sheep, a duck and a cockerel. But it was not long before men...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Pen & Sword Transport, an imprint of Pen & Sword Books Ltd. 2019

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 629.133 BUR

DeAngelis, Gina.

Summary: Describes the development and early flights of airships and the disastrous explosion of the passenger airship, Hindenberg, at a New Jersey airfield on May 6, 1937, in which thirty-six people were killed.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Chelsea House Pub. 2001

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 363.1246 DEA

Rose, Alexander

Summary: "Of all people who might have solved the problem of human flight, few would have suspected Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin, a fusty, old-school member of the Wurrtemburg nobility, recently ousted from the German military and convinced that a flying machine will be his ticket back to military glory. Instead, by the dawn of the twentieth century, he creates something much bigger: a system of flight...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2020

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 387.7092 ROS

Griffith, Victoria.

Summary: Profiles Brazilian aviator Alberto Santos-Dumont, who made great strides in the invention of flight.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams Books for Young Readers 2011

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 629.13 GRI

Gwynne, S. C. (Samuel C.)

1 hold on 1 copy

Summary: "The tragic story of the British airship R101--which went down in a spectacular hydrogen-fueled fireball in 1930, killing more people than died in the Hindenburg disaster seven years later--has been largely forgotten. In His Majesty's Airship, historian S.C. Gwynne resurrects it in vivid detail, telling the epic story of great ambition gone terribly wrong. Airships, those airborne leviathans...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2023

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.12 GWY

Preston, Diana

Summary: "In six weeks during April and May 1915, as World War I escalated, Germany forever altered the way war would be fought. On April 22, at Ypres, German canisters spewed poison gas at French and Canadian soldiers in their trenches; on May 7, the German submarine U-20, without warning, torpedoed the passenger liner Lusitania, killing 1,198 civilians; and on May 31, a German Zeppelin began the first...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2015

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.4 PRE

Archbold, Rick

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Books 1994

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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 629.1332 ARC

Summary: Presents stories about mechanistic golems, infernal machines, airships, alternative history, other planets, and how the genre has influenced movies, television, comics, and the Internet.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Tachyon Publications 2008

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STE

Piesing, Mark

Summary: "The riveting true story of the largest polar rescue mission in history: the desperate race to find the survivors of the glamorous Arctic airship Italia, which crashed near the North Pole in 1928"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Custom House 2021

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 919.8 PIE

Pascal, Janet B.

Summary: At 800-feet long, the Hindenburg was the largest airship ever built--just slightly smaller than the Titanic! Also of a disastrous end, the zeppelin burst into flame as spectators watched it attempt to land in Lakehurst, New Jersey on May 6, 1937. In under a minute, the Hindenburg was gone, people jumping from windows to escape. However, only 62 of the 97 crew members and passengers onboard...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Grosset & Dunlap, an Imprint of Penguin Group (USA) LLC 2014

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 387.7 PAS

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J900 WHA BASKET

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in JT Non-Fiction, Call number: JT World What Pascal

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