Zeppelin Tales

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They were the grandest machines to ever take flight: the airships of the first three decades of the 20th Century. Ferdinand Graf Zeppelin gave his name to the type, but many others tried their hand at lighter-than-air flight.

We tell those stories in Zeppelin Tales, a Historical Study tracing the development of the airship from the first ship built by David Schwartz in 1896, through the American flying carriers Akron and Macon of the 1930’s, and on to the plans for even bigger ships to follow.

You’ll learn how an airship operated, including the U.S. Navy’s innovative airplane-carrying airships. We tell the stories of German airships over the North Sea, and the development of German lighter-than-air flight including the rubber Parseval gasbag and Johann Schütte’s beautiful but fragile wooden-framed Schütte-Lanz series. Plus we tell about the airship programs, in Britain, Russia, France, Italy, and Austria-Hungary. We have a lot of zeppelin tales, in Zeppelin Tales.

Zeppelin Tales is a companion book to the Great War at Sea series, where airships appear in most games, and to our Golden Journal No. 55 Flying Carriers and No. 62 Naval Airships (those two are where you’ll find the airship pieces). Zeppelin Tales is filled with history and stories; it’s a standalone book and you don’t need to know anything about the games to enjoy it.