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Estate sale find, vintage original hardcover copy with dust jacket of Battlebags: British Airships of the First World War: An Illustrated History by Ces Mowthorpe.
Affectionately named 'Battlebags' by their crews and 'Pigs' by the local civilian inhabitants. Royal Naval Air Service airships were a familiar sight around Britain's shores during the First World War. At least 226 airships of all types were built and operated by the Royal Navy during the war in a bid to beat the deadly German U - boat menace.
Battlebags is the first book to record and describe in detail every single airship built or used by Great Britain during the First World War.
The background to each class is given together with details on individual airships, including where they were built and stationed, their known crews, plus technical information and particulars of notable flights and total hours flown.
The author, Ces Mowthorpe, also describes the development of the airship in the years leading up to the First World War and the part it was destined to play in the years that followed.
Mowthorpe is a leading authority on British airships and an active member of Cross and Cockade, the society of First World War aviation historians. He has also published another book over airships: Sky Sailers : The story of the world's airshipmen.
Product Dimensions: approximately 8" x 10.5", 194 pages, approximate shipping weight 3.1 pounds.
PLEASE SEE DESCRIPTION AND PHOTOS FOR ADDITIONAL DETAILS - The item is in overall Good used condition, signs of wear, creases, fading, tears, sunning and age toning, soiling, stains, no writing, no odors, please see images.
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