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Title: A Nation of Fliers: German Aviation and the Popular Imagination by Peter Fritzsche ISBN: 0-674-60122-X Publisher: Harvard Univ Pr Pub. Date: March, 1994 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.95

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Average Customer Rating: 4 (1 review)

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Summary: Everything you ever wanted to know about airships & gliders
Comment: Fritzsche's writing feels considerably less like formal academic history and more like an entertaining narrative of the rise of aviation in fin de sicle Germany. At times his sweep is so large that the historical details get lost, but at the same time the added perspective keeps the often dry subject matter (Airships, Zepplins, gliders, the rise of nationalism from German aviation) moving in a lively manner. Particularly interesting is his narration of the rise of gliding as a German response to the aviation restrictions in early 1920's Germany. I often feel that authors writing on Nazi-era Germany try too hard to view all aspects of pre-WWII German culture as logically leading to the rise of the Nazi horror, but in the case of gliding the parallel is both applicable and well drawn.