Johannes Cabal, necromancer of some little infamy, returns in this riotously clever and terrifically twisted tale of murder and international intrigue. In this genre-twisting novel, infamous necromancer Johannes Cabal, after beating the Devil and being reunited with his soul,...

The Industrial Revolution has escalated into all-out warfare. It has been sixteen years since the Heterodyne Boys, benevolent adventurers and inventors, disappeared under mysterious circumstances. Today, Europe is ruled by the Sparks, dynasties of mad scientists ruling over -...

The boy adventurer returns and is swept up in an airship out on its trial run and headed for danger, in a reissue of a thrilling novel published more than eighty years ago.

This is a first-hand account of early airship development by one of the major airship pioneers of the time, Alberto Santos-Dumont.

From the New York Times bestselling author of Saving Private Ryan and The Titanic Murders comes a gripping new mystery based on history's most terrifying air disaster."The master of true-crime fiction!"--Publishers Weekly"An exceptional storyteller."--San Diego Union-Tribune"Collins blends fact and...

From School Library Journal: Oppel does it again! This action-packed sequel to Airborn (HarperCollins, 2004) starts with a bang and doesn't let up until the satisfying ending. Matt Cruse, now a student at the Airship Academy, finds himself training...

From Booklist: Matt Cruse is a cabin boy aboard the luxury passenger airship Aurora when the ship encounters a battered hot air balloon with an unconscious man aboard. Before dying, the man claims to have seen beautiful creatures swarming...

This book goes into great detail about the history of the United States Navy airship programs and the various airships that were operated.

The news of the Hindenburg crash didn't just make Erich Lindemann's miserable day worse. It changed his whole life. Germany, May 1937. Shy, cerebral Erich loves Zeppelins - silver airborne giants that span oceans in a single leap and...

The standard reference now revised and expanded. Dr. Robinson has opened up his vast photo archives to enhance this new edition of his classic work. Much of the new photographic material is published here for the first time. ...

This is a fully illustrated history of the Royal Naval Air Service airships, affectionately named "battlebags" by their crews and "pigs" by the local civilian inhabitants, which became mighty weapons against the deadly German U-boat menace in WW I....

In the first decade of the twentieth century, the rigid airship looked more likely to be the future of air travel and transportation than the small, rather fragile airplane. Using a lifting gas enclosed within a metal or wooden...

From Booklist: The brainchild of Graf von Zeppelin, dirigibles, for all their elegant majesty, were in constant search of a mission. They were used for sightseeing excursions, bombing London in World War I, exploring the Arctic, carrying airplanes, and...

Since the early days of practical aviation, the rival claims of heavier-than-air and lighter-than-air craft have been a subject more of controversy than constructive comment. Indeed, those who have studied the history of aeronautics will be aware that man's...

From Publishers Weekly: "Oh, the humanity and all the passengers... a mass of flaming wreckage." These words from radio reporter Herbert Morrison witnessing the destruction of the Hindenberg in 1937 are familiar to many. However, in the two decades...