Airships, those airborne leviathans that occupied center stage in the world in the first half of the twentieth century, were a symbol of the future.
MY REVIEW
Another book club read, this one for our nonfiction club at my local library (I’m in two book clubs there and one at the local comic store). I LOVED this book it was so fascinating. We got background information the history of airships but nothing too numbers oriented and then it was all about the creation and demise of the British airship R101. Think of it as a bit like those Titanic documentaries where we’re getting the countdown toward the tragedy and all the things leading up to it. And like many documentaries/stories, of course not just Titanic ones, we see all the mistakes made along the way.
The history is absolutely fascinating as was the process of it all. There were so many times to be flabbergasted as these otherwise (arguably) smart or brave men ignored all the statistics and details to just go ahead anyway. So, of course as readers, knowing the outcome aside, are not shocked by the tragedy. But I still felt so invested in the book from start to finish. Of course I’ve heard of the Hindenburg and the —– but I’d never heard of R101 and by the end of it I wanted to find out even more information about it and other airships. Overall as ag group we all seemed to just really enjoy this and couldn’t help but be fascinated by it all. This was a huge win for me and I will definitely be telling anyone with an interest in nonfiction/airships to pick this one up.
5/5 Huge cups of coffee from me. Now for me to get excited about our next nonfiction pick.
The Caffeinated Reader 
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