His Majesty's Airship : The Life and Tragic Death of the World's Largest Flying Machine 9781982168285, 2022058230, 2022058231, 9781982168278

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His Majesty's Airship : The Life and Tragic Death of the World's Largest Flying Machine
9781982168285, 2022058230, 2022058231, 9781982168278

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S. C. Gwynne

Table of contents :
Cover
Title Page
Dedication
Map
Chapter 1: Dreams, Pipe Dreams, and Imperial Visions
Chapter 2: Brief History of a Bad Idea
Chapter 3: Night and Storm
Chapter 4: Flying Death Trap
Chapter 5: “The Feeling of Utter Loneliness”
Chapter 6: The Idea That Would Not Die
Chapter 7: India Seems a Very Long Way
Chapter 8: She Floats Free
Chapter 9: Trial by Error
Chapter 10: France, and the Midnight Hour
Chapter 11: The Perfectly Safe Experimental Prototype
Chapter 12: The Violent, Unseen World
Chapter 13: Fools Rush In
Chapter 14: A Very Violent End
Chapter 15: Solving the Mystery: What Caused the Crash?
Chapter 16: Bloody End of a Bloody Era
Photographs
Acknowledgments
About the Author
Notes
Bibliographical Note
Bibliography
Index
Illustration Credits
Copyright

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