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200 1. $a Empires of the sky $b Texte imprimé $e zeppelins, airplanes, and two men's epic duel to rule the world $f Alexander Rose
214 .0 $a New York $c Random house
214 .4 $d C 2020
215 .. $a 1 vol. (XIX-599 p. [16] p. de pl.) $c ill. $d 25 cm
300 .. $a Bibliogr. p. 499-512. Index
330 .. $a "Of all people who might have solved the problem of human flight, few would have suspected
Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin, a fusty, old-school member of the Wurrtemburg nobility,
recently ousted from the German military and convinced that a flying machine will
be his ticket back to military glory. Instead, by the dawn of the twentieth century,
he creates something much bigger: a system of flight that embodies the cutting edge
of multiple sciences and a business that would last for decades and make his name
synonymous with airships. Not even the Wright brothers, who were creating their competing
technology at nearly the same moment, managed such close association. Zeppelin, aging,
leaves his company in the hands of Hugo Eckener, his partner and publicity expert,
who has a vision of the airship connecting people all over the world. He guides the
Zeppelin Company, always on the brink of collapse, through the first world war and
some of Germany's most difficult years, as he tries to establish the first airline
route across the Atlantic. But, just as Zeppelin had a rival for the best flight technology
in the Wright Bros., Eckener meets his match in Pan American's Juan Trippe in the
race to secure a financially sustainable and popular airline business. Both Eckener
and Trippe dream of establishing service between London and New York, a valuable,
but surprisingly difficult route that sends them both first around the globe to perfect
their machines and solidify their businesses. Only with the Hindenburg disaster in
Lakehurst, New Jersey, and the distant rumblings of another world war, does the race
come to an end. The airplane has won. Twilight of the Gods is an epic history of the
founding of the aviation age. From invention to competition, the battle to dominate
the skies is the story of how the modern world was made"
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