The Zeppelin Offensive A German Perspective in Pictures and Postcards

This book was presented to the Collection by Mr. Hubert Ross. The price quoted is our estimate of its value. "Fly Zeppelins/Help us in the war/Fly to England/England shall be destroyed by fire - Fly!". Such was the hymn which the children sang, such the refrain which greeted the aged inventor, Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin wherever he went. Why was there this reaction across Germany? How did a handful of aircraft giving pleasure cruises across the country become a fearsome fleet of rapacious giants used to punish Germany's enemies? This book draws on the largest postcard archive of its kind and other image archives to tell the story of these monsters.