Hindenburg An Illustrated History by Archbold. Rick,

Large format hard back book with colour pictorial dust jacket, 229 pages, profusely illustrated with colour and B/W plates, 10 chapters, bibliography, index.

Now, in one splendidly illustrated volume, the complete story of Germany's mammoth airship and the other silver giants that once crossed the skies is told as never before. Dozens of paintings, diagrams, black-and-white and colour photographs many of them previously unpublished -convey just what it was like to make a voyage on the largest aircraft ever constructed. In a spectacular three-page fold-out, readers can explore the Hindenburg's passenger decks, from the lounge with its grand piano and the promenades with their panoramic views to the elegant dining room and the airtight smoking room. Ken Marschall's evocative paintings depict some of the great moments in the history of zeppelins up to the fiery disaster that brought the airship era to an untimely end.