Empires of the Sky Zeppelins, Airplanes, and Two Men's Epic Duel to Rule the World【電子書籍】[ Alexander Rose ]
＜p＞＜strong＞The Golden Age of Aviation is brought to life in this story of the giant Zeppelin airships that once roamed the skyーa story that ended with the fiery destruction of the ＜em＞Hindenburg＜/em＞＜/strong＞.＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞“[An] exhilarating history of the dawn of modern air travel.”ー＜em＞Publishers Weekly＜/em＞＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞At the dawn of the twentieth century, when human flight was still considered an impossibility, Germany’s Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin vied with the Wright Brothers to build the world’s first successful flying machine. As the Wrights labored to invent the airplane, Zeppelin fathered the remarkable airship, sparking a bitter rivalry between the two types of aircraft and their innovators that would last for decades, in the quest to control one of humanity’s most inspiring achievements.＜/p＞ ＜p＞And it was the airshipーnot the airplaneーthat led the way. In the glittery 1920s, the count’s brilliant prot?g?, Hugo Eckener, achieved undreamed-of feats of daring and skill, including the extraordinary Round-the-World voyage of the ＜em＞Graf Zeppelin＜/em＞. At a time when America’s airplanesーrickety deathtraps held together by glue, screws, and luckーcould barely make it from New York to Washington, D.C., Eckener’s airships serenely traversed oceans without a single crash, fatality, or injury. What Charles Lindbergh almost died doingーcrossing the Atlantic in 1927ーEckener had effortlessly accomplished three years before the ＜em＞Spirit of St. Louis＜/em＞ even took off.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Even as the Nazis sought to exploit Zeppelins for their own nefarious purposes, Eckener built his masterwork, the behemoth ＜em＞Hindenburg＜/em＞ーa marvel of design and engineering. Determined to forge an airline empire under the new flagship, Eckener met his match in Juan Trippe, the ruthlessly ambitious king of Pan American Airways, who believed his fleet of next-generation planes would vanquish Eckener’s coming airship armada.＜/p＞ ＜p＞It was a fight only one manーand one technologyーcould win. Countering each other’s moves on the global chessboard, each seeking to wrest the advantage from his rival, the struggle for mastery of the air was a clash not only of technologies but of business, diplomacy, politics, personalities, and the two men’s vastly different dreams of the future.＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜em＞Empires of the Sky＜/em＞ is the sweeping, untold tale of the duel that transfixed the world and helped create our modern age.＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。
※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。
※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。
※このページからは注文できません。
- 商品価格：1,520円
- レビュー件数：0件
- レビュー平均：0（5点満点）