![]() Put it this way, in 1938 a large-scale survey discovered that Count von Zeppelin, the inventor of the airship and dead for twenty years, ranked among the best recognized of German luminaries. His approach, in other words, puts Zeppelins into context. Rather than the technical details, Syon’s broader focus is on what the wondrous technology meant to Germans and how it shaped their culture and history over the decades. This is an academic book, one that’s engaging, fluidly written, and immensely interesting for anyone intrigued by the longtime German fascination with airships. When you buy a book we may earn a small commission. Countering each other’s moves on the global chessboard, each seeking to wrest the advantage from his rival, the two men’s struggle was not only the clash of business, diplomacy, politics, and personalities, but of their vastly different dreams of our future. The Zeppelin Company’s Hugo Eckener went head to head against Juan Trippe, the ruthlessly ambitious king of Pan American Airways, who believed his fleet of next-generation planes would vanquish Eckener’s coming airship armada. For decades, the airplane and the airship were rivals for technological superiority, and their greatest exponents fought a long duel for mastery of the air. Empires of the Sky brings the Golden Age of Aviation back to life by telling the story of the giant Zeppelin airships that once roamed the sky and ended with the fiery destruction of the Hindenburg.
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