Title:
What was the Hindenburg?
Personal Author EPSB:
Summary:
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.
Year Published:
2014
Series:
Physical Description:
1 v., 108 p. : b&w ill. ; 19 cm.
Contents:
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.
Age Interest level:
Age 8-12.
Grade Interest level:
Grade 4-6.
Corporate Subject:
ISBN:
9780448481197
Publisher:
New York : Grosset & Dunlap, an Imprint of Penguin Group (USA) LLC, [2014]
