
AIRSHIPWRECK
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Jonathan Cape, London, 1978, 1st. ISBN 0-224-01384-X. Hard cover, 72 pages plus page for Visual Glossary of Technical Terms. Like new hardcover in a very good plus price-clipped dust jacket; black & white and sepia photos, map; illustrated end papers of side view and plans of the Hindenburg. Complimentary post card laid in. ‘… the airship remains one of the greatest triumphs of structural engineering the world has ever seen. … In this book, with the help of experts, I have told the story of the airship’s failure. … But the book is intended as a tribute to the master builders and their aluminum marvels. This generation of engineers dared to build their cathedrals in the sky; no wonder then that so few of them stayed there.’ (from introduction)