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A true bookPreston, 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.4 PREGwynne, S. C. (Samuel C.)
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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.12 GWYBenoit, 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Children's Press 2011
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 363.12 BENMillar, John Fitzhugh.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thirteen Colonies Press 1986
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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"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Custom House 2021