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Monsters\nby Ed Regis\nHardback\nEnglish\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: Ed Regis\nTitle: Monsters\nFormat: Hardback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: Science: general issues\nPublisher: Basic Books\nISBN-13: 9780465065943\nISBN-10: 0465065945\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\nOh, the humanity! Radio reporter Herbert Morrison''s words on witnessing the destruction of the Hindenburg are etched in our collective memory. Yet, while the Hindenburg -- like the Titanic -- is a symbol of the technological hubris of a bygone era, we seem to have forgotten the lessons that can be learned from the infamous 1937 zeppelin disaster.\n\n Zeppelins were steerable balloons of highly flammable, explosive gas, but the sheer magic of seeing one of these behemoths afloat in the sky cast an irresistible spell over all those who saw th.