New York Times
bestselling author Lauren Tarshis provides a birds-eye view of one of America's most ghastly accidents ever be captured on film, the Hindenburg Disaster of 1937.
The greatest flying machine ever built is about to crash...For eleven-year-old Hugo Ballard, flying on the
Hindenburg
is a dream come true. Hugo, his parents, and his four-year-old sister, Gertie, are making the thrilling four-thousand-mile journey across the Atlantic in a zeppelin as big as the
Titanic
.But as the zeppelin gets ready to land, a blast rocks the
and fire consumes the ship. The entire disaster lasts a mere thirty-two seconds, but in those few seconds, Hugo finds himself separated from his family and in a desperate race to escape the flames. The
is doomed. And so, it seems, is Hugo. Will he survive this historic disaster?