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?These Premises were Totally Destroyed by a Zeppelin Raid on September 8th, 1915.?
You are not high on drugs at a Led Zeppelin Concert; what you see above was actually written during the First World War. In 1915, being high on Hydrogen was the preference of many young men in the German Navy?s Airship elite corps. Now, let?s focus on this great book by author Douglas Robinson.
Doug Robinson is no longer with us, but his legacy lives on in this gripping retelling of an unbelievable tale of terror and heroism.
For those Francophiles and Anglophiles out there I must warn you now that you may not enjoy reading this factual accounting of war. The definition of terrorist and hero was blurred then even as they are today. After 90 years, the emotions surrounding the ?Terror Raids? from the air can still solicit ill feelings among descendants of the First and Second World Wars.
The Zeppelin in Combat takes the reader back to a time when warfare was still fought on defined battlefields. Behind the lines enemy warfare was considered espionage and was against the rules. While many U.S. veterans of the United States Civil War knew the battlefield included civilians, those in battle during World War 1 had an odd respect for the battle line. Often, when aviators were shot down in dogfights, the opposing side would give their opponent a funeral with full military honors. In direct opposition to this chivalric concept, those who fought and flew in the airships of the German Navy were despised intently.
After reading this fine scholarly work, I have gained a new insight into why Winston Churchill and others in the British Military had such a resentful attitude toward the Germans after World War 1.
In the United States, the sinking of the Lusitania had swung public opinion away from sympathetic feelings for Germany. In the British Isles, I believe the Zeppelin Raids created a deep psychological scar that never healed.
Douglas Robinson gives a detailed accounting of the raids, including charts showing the materials used in the raids. The magnitude of the technological accomplishment of the Germans during these raids is astounding. In comparison to fixed winged aircraft of the time, the Zeppelins were literally a machine from the future. Admittedly, the ultimate vulnerability of this new technology would relegate it to the scrap heap of emerging technologies within the next 25 years. But during the early years of the First War, no air machine could claim the ability to lift and carry a 5000-pound load of bombs and deliver them to the enemy on a single flight. While not under or over stating the technological accomplishments attained by the many men and women who built the Zeppelins, I cannot fully convey my amazement at reading about this feat, which occurred before most of us were born.
I have always found it a bit odd why the British insisted on nighttime air raids against Germany in WW II after the Battle of Britain. There have been many works dealing with this issue over the ensuing years. The strategic worth of the ?round the clock? bombing efforts were publicized at the time to have had a devastating effect on German war production and transportation. While this is the main argument and justification for the many lives lost in the countless daylight USAAF raids, it is only part of the explanation. By the advent of the Battle of Britain, the technological advantage had swung the other way. With the assistance of the USAAF, the British could at last carry out revenge bombings for the First World War.
After reading The Zeppelin in Combat, there is much evidence presented to forward a theory that the British were acting out of revenge. A deep seeded fear of ?Terror bombing? had arisen out of the throws of the First World War.
Never before in the history of warfare had such a dramatic stage been set for human conflict. The British Press did everything in its power to deny the German Admiralty the satisfaction of knowing how damaging the raids actually were, physically and psychologically.
The psychological implications of having the German Navy launch airship raids over the British homeland changed the face of war forever.
If this opinion seems a little jaded, try reading Douglas Robinson?s The Zeppelin in Combat and judge for yourself.
