April 6, 2011 Leave a Comment

The Allies – Cavanaugh

Allies Cover

Jack reads selected passages
from his favorite books

Unscripted. Unrehearsed. Unedited. 


TODAY’S READING 

The Allies, Jack Cavanaugh, 1997.

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The rigid airship, employed so extensively by Germany during the Great War, was perfected soon after the turn of the century by a former Wurttenberg army cavalry officer, Ferdinand Adolf August Heinrich Graf von Zeppelin, who had been inspired by a balloon ascent he had made in the United States on August 19, 1863.


TODAY IN FROM MY LIBRARY:

Katy Morgan, an American nurse in training, experiences war first hand when a pair of German Zeppelins drop incendiary bombs on London.

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April 4, 2011 Leave a Comment

The Great Zeppelin Raid

Zeppelin

Jack reads selected passages
from his favorite books

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TODAY’S READING  

Unpublished Account of the
Great Zeppelin Raid of 1916, Tom Morgan, 1996.  

 

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This article was begun January 31, 1996, at just before 9:00 p.m. At around that time and on that date eighty years before, two German airships were flying South over Shropshire, and although they didn’t know it, they would soon bomb my town, and almost kill my great grandfather, my grandmother and her sister. — Tom Morgan

TODAY IN FROM MY LIBRARY:

Florence Hill and her sister, Ellen, flee a theater performance when a German Zeppelin drops incendiary bombs on the town of Wednesbury, England.

 

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