The Hindenburg

by Michael Macdonald Mooney

Book Overview

Hindenburg, The, by Mooney, Michael Macdonald This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0396065023
• ISBN13: 9780396065029
• Release Date: January 1972
• Publisher: Dodd Mead
• Length: 278 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.

Customer Reviews

In-Depth Look at Famous Disaster

Ah, back to the Hindenburg, the disaster that claimed few lives but played out so spectacularly it burned its image into our minds. Mooney's book looks at the event, giving us a brief history of the airship followed by a comprehensive account of the ship's last flight to New York. No airship enthusiast will be bored by this book. It is well written, despite the author's annoying tendency to start each chapter commenting on the sun's indifference to the human clock or calender. My only problem with the book was its contention that the explosion was an act of sabotage by one of the riggers. This idea is not new, and could of course be true, but I believe the evidence suggests a natural cause. Why do so many feel that arson and sabotage are necessary ingredients to a good disaster story? But this detracts little from the work. I recommend it to Hindenburg junkies and aviation historians.