Flight of the Titan: The Story of the R34 is a (somewhat) recent book about the historic 1919 transatlantic crossing of the British airship R.34.
Although it was published a few years ago I have not yet read the book — my copy is now on the way — but knowledgeable friends speak highly of it. The only criticism I have heard relates to the publisher’s decision to use a photo of LZ-127 on the cover. 🙂
Please feel free to post your own thoughts and reviews of the book in the comments.
It is actually quite weird how the LZ-127 is on the cover. One would wonder how the happened. I’m not really knowledgeable in the work of Publishers, but I believe they choose the title and front cover themselves? If that’s true, I guess there wasn’t enough communication between the Publisher… Read more »
Another book to add to the list! Thanks for the share!
Patrick Abbott’s 1973 book “Airship: The story of the R34 and the first east-west crossing of the Atlantic by air” is a good history and it does have a picture of the R34 on the cover!
I bought this when it first came out – and for the life of me, I cannot understand why the publishers didn’t use an actual picture of the R34 on the cover. For me this spoilt the book, as I felt that if they weren’t sufficiently knowledgeable about being accurate… Read more »