Airshipworld
Book:
Count
Zeppelin:
A Psychological Portrait
by Professor Henry Cord Meyer
Approx. A5 size (225mm x
175mm, i.e. 9 x 7 inches)
hardback, 116 pages, illustrations
from the authour and Zeppelin Archives, courtesy of the Zeppelin Museum,
Friedrichshafen.
ISBN 0-9583693-1-3, June
1998
Published for the Lighter-Than-Air
Institute by Tiola Consolidated Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand
The LTAI has pleasure in presenting
this latest work of scholarship by Professor Meyer. Already well-known
for his earlier Airshipmen Businessmen and Politics 1890-1940, this study
of the Count examines the way in which his sense of honour was deeply affronted
by his unjustified cashiering from the Army, which had been his whole life,
and how he attempted to redeem himself by developing the rigid airship
for the service of his country. Widely ridiculed in his early efforts,
he went on to become the most celebrated German since Bismarck. Professor
Meyer makes the case very persuasively that had not the Count suffered
such a traumatic experience in mid-life, and had the supreme strength of
will to proceed, the rigid airship may not have been developed by him as
it was. A fascinating study of a remarkable man and the times in which
he lived.
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