The Hidden Hindenburg, Michael McCarthy
The Hidden Hindenburg, Michael McCarthy
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The Hidden Hindenburg
The Untold Story of the Tragedy, the Nazi Secrets, and the Quest to Rule the Skies

Author: Michael McCarthy

Narrator: P.J. Ochlan

Unabridged: 10 hr 19 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 10/13/2020

Synopsis

By the author of Ashes Under Water, here is one of the great untold stories of World War II. The Hidden Hindenburg at last reveals the cause of aviation's most famous disaster and the duplicity that kept the truth from coming to light for three generations. It also finally catches up with a German legend who misled the world about the Hindenburg to bury his own Nazi connections.

Drawing on previously unpublished documents from the National Archives in Washington, along with archival collections in Germany, this definitive account explores how the Hindenburg was connected to the Dachau concentration camp, a futuristic German rocket that terrified the Allies, and a classified project that imported Nazi scientists to America after the war.

It took author Michael McCarthy four years to get to the bottom of this epic disaster, in which the largest object civilization has ever managed to fly burnt up in less than one minute. Along the way, he found a tale of international intrigue, revealing a whistleblower, a cover-up, and corruption on two continents.

About Michael McCarthy

Michael McCarthy worked for twenty-two years for the Wall Street Journal, as a reporter and editor in New York and Chicago. He wrote about aviation and other industries. In 2014, he published Ashes Under Water: The SS Eastland and the Shipwreck That Shook America. That nonfiction work brought to life a tragedy in which more than eight hundred people, mostly poor women and children, perished in a steamship capsize. The book hit the New York Times e-book bestseller list in the summer of 2015. His Eastland book also sparked a documentary film, for which he was interviewed, from Chicago-based Moshman Productions. He lives in South Haven, Michigan.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Bon Tom on April 30, 2021

Ah, the world of airships. It's so remote and different from how we fly today, it's like something from steampunk, or fantasy novel. But the airships did happen, serving both as war machines and for luxury travel reserved only for the richest. This book is about how they came into being, what were t......more

Goodreads review by Susan on March 11, 2022

Closer to 3.5. The title is a bit misleading, because it has more to do with Hugo Eckner, and his successful attempt to rewrite history, but it's still fascinating. It was kinda weird how the story focused almost exclusively on the prison labor side of Nazi atrocities during the Holocaust, but it's......more

Goodreads review by Bill on June 16, 2021

I would have rated this book much higher if it focused more on the technical aspects of the design and operation of the Hindenburg and the accident investigation, and less on the wartime stories of the German rocket program and postwar Operation Paperclip.......more

Goodreads review by Holly on October 29, 2022

Is there anyone alive who has not seen the newsreel footage or heard the anguished radio report of the burning of the airship Hindenburg in 1937? The author sets this historic event in a context that spans a hundred years from the first successful German airships in the first decade of the twentieth......more

Goodreads review by C on July 13, 2021

Interesting, but hardly revelatory The book was interesting about the Hindenburg and Zeppelins generally, and added insight into the crash, but spent far too much time on the subsequent career of Eckner, his use of slave labor and the flaws of denazification. It seemed like what could have been a goo......more

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