Airship by John Swinfield
Airship charts the history of lighter-than-air craft from the continental pioneers of the late 19th century through to European airship stationsin the Great War, Germany's pre-eminent commercial and military zeppelins, the construction of British behemoths R100 and its sistership R101 and the calamitous losses of US Akron in 1933 and LZ129 Hindenburg in 1937, events which ultimately heralded the end of largescale airship production. The historical development of airships is seen to be protracted and fractious, as the armed forces of leading European countries and the U.S. explored commercial applications while trying to develop them for military use.
John Swinfield has an MA in maritime history and is an ex-Fleet Street journalist, broadcaster and historian. A former Industrial Journalist of the Year, he was an on-screen reporter with Nationwide (BBC1) and The Money Programme (BBC2). For ITV/C4 he made the Enterprise series, an award-winning documentary strand where he travelled the globe, producing and directing myriad films about the rich and influential, such as David Rockefeller, Robert Maxwell, Richard Branson and Gloria Vanderbilt. He has three Royal Television Society awards. He won the Sandford St. Martin Premier Award for his film Beggars in Paradise (ITV) shot in Peru, one of several documentaries he made about dispossessed peoples in the teeming slums of Latin America and south-east Asia. John Swinfield was also previously the executive producer of Arts & Features for Anglia Television and is a well-known public speaker. His published works include two world histories Airship: Design, Development & Disaster; and the daring saga of early submariners, from Da Vinci's earliest imaginings to the underwater warriors of WW1, Sea Devils: Pioneer Submariners.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781591140344 |
| ISBN 10 | 159114034X |
| Titel | Airship |
| Autor | John Swinfield |
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| Bindungsart | Hardback |
| Verlag | Naval Institute Press |
| Erscheinungsjahr | 2012-12-15 |
| Seitenanzahl | 352 |
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