| International Standard Book Number |
9780593832189
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| International Standard Book Number |
0593832183
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| Personal Name |
Katz, Catherine Grace author.
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| Title Statement |
Shadow before the flame : the Hindenburg disaster and the prelude to war / Catherine Grace Katz.
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| Production, Publication, Distribution, Manufacture, and Copyright Notice |
New York, NY : Viking, [2026]
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| Physical Description |
pages cm.
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| Content Type |
text txt rdacontent
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| Media Type |
unmediated n rdamedia
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| Carrier Type |
volume nc rdacarrier
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| Bibliography, Etc. Note |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Summary, Etc. |
"For thirty-seven seconds on May 6, 1937, the Hindenburg lit up the sky over Lakehurst, New Jersey in an indelible conflagration that shocked the world and brought the airship era to a close. In this definitive account, acclaimed historian Catherine Grace Katz brings together little-known research that unveils the disaster as a pivotal moment in time, at the crossroads of the rising tension between Germany (where the Hindenburg's fateful trip began) and the US in the 1930s, as well as a rapidly changing age of aviation in which the airship had been deemed the future of air travel, a technology that would connect the world. While thirty-six people died in the explosion, many others crawled from the wreckage and survived to tell the tale. Katz traces the experiences of a captivating cast of characters: an heiress, a world-renowned acrobat, a German Jew working to save his family from the clutches of Nazism, a young cabin boy on his first voyage with the crew. Meanwhile, on the ground were two intrepid journalists whose reporting on the Hindenburg would invent breaking news as we now know it. In a deeply researched yet gripping, ticking-clock narrative, Shadow Before the Flame offers a portrait of an era-that brief suspended moment in time before war became an inevitability-tracing the rapid rise of fascism and march toward World War II. It is a story that begins with the promise of a future made bright by technological innovation and ends with caskets draped in swastikas in New York City"-- Provided by publisher.
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| Subject |
Hindenburg (Airship)
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
International relations fast.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
National socialism fast.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Aircraft accidents fast.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Aircraft accidents New Jersey History 20th century.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Airships Germany History 20th century.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Airships History 20th century.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
War Causes fast.
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| Subject Added Entry - Geographical Term |
New Jersey Lakehurst fast
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| Subject Added Entry - Geographical Term |
United States fast
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| Subject Added Entry - Geographical Term |
Germany fast
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| Subject Added Entry - Geographical Term |
Germany History 1933-1945.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
History fast.
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| Additional Physical Form Entry |
Online version Katz, Catherine Grace Shadow before the flame New York, NY: Viking, [2026] 9780593832196 (DLC) 2026006340.
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| Location |
940.52 KAT 31662001862077
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