Zeppelins of World War I: The Dramatic Story of Germany's Lethal Airships by Wilbur Cross

Hardcover with DJ in Very Good (VG) condition. Clean and straight.  This saga of the most daring aerial campaign of the Great War begins with Peter Strasser, the brilliant naval officer who saw in Count Zeppelin's slow-moving aircraft a vehicle to break England's will to fight. With Strasser's urging and direction the German high command built a fleet of super zeppelins that could fly well beyond the reach of fighter planes and anti-aircraft guns to drop tons of bombs on the cities of Britain's industrial heartland. By 1915 Londoners slept fitfully under a cold blanket of fear, straining to hear the distant drone of the zeppelins' Mayback engines. In time the British counterattacked with ingenuity and gallantry--developing higher-flying planes and reliable incendiary bullets to engage the zeppelins. By 1918 the use of these airships as a means of destruction had come to a fiery end. Zeppelins of World War I details the German naval Airship Division's (Luftschiffe) history, the psycholo