The Disaster of the Hindenburg: The Last Flight of the Greatest Airship Ever Built

by Shelley Tanaka

The Hindenburg was the pride of Germany, the largest and most luxurious Zeppelin ever built. Modern blimps are to Zeppelins what modern lizards are to brontosauruses. The Hindenburg, in 1936, spent its first year as a propaganda piece for Hitler's Germany. In 1937, it crossed the Atlantic, and as it hovered above Lakehurst, New Jersey, preparing for landing, it suddenly burst into flames. In a matter of minutes, the huge, hydrogen-filled craft burned to ashes. Formatted like the other books in the Time Quest series, this is profusely illustrated with photographs, diagrams, paintings, and drawings of the Hindenburg and its passengers, but Tanaka chooses to tell her history as a narrative revolving around Irene Doehner, a 16-year-old passenger who died in the explosion.

64 pages softcover Publisher: Scholastic Paperbacks (1996) 280mm x 217mm

very good condition