The Airshipmen is now also available as a trilogy with additional photographs and maps. For details see The Airshipmen Trilogy. A marvelous book. An all-encompassing masterpiece—truly remarkable. I applaud the writer’s style—reminds me of Nevil Shute. At times, a shocker, totally unexpected and effective. Sorry to see it end. The glowing 4 and 5-star reviews are well-deserved. A BBC mini-series would be appropriate. Mary Jane M. USAF (Ret). This epic is bursting with devastating, colorful images, great humor, lush storylines, tender love stories, exciting plot twists and a plethora of factual historical information. It is both fiction and non-fiction - 'faction' perhaps! Lauren Dennington, Consulting Editor, Actor, Narrator. A riveting story that plays out against the background of one of the most intriguing chapters in aviation history. David Dennington weaves a fascinating web of romance, courage, tragedy and shattered dreams and gives the reader a front row seat to eye-opening, high-stakes political battles on two continents. A real page turner with the constant feeling that something new and unexpected is about to unfold. David Wright, Daily Mirror Journalist. After WW1, Lou Remington leaves the Marine Corps and joins the Navy to fly airships. He is sent to England to train with his crew to fly R38 back to New Jersey. After a terrible accident, he falls in love and settles down to a blissful life in rural Yorkshire. But the British come knocking at his door with offers for him to assist in building the safest and mightiest airships the world has ever seen. Accepting the position could lead to a spectacular career with infinite rewards—or maybe cost him his life. The British Airship Program is a morass of infighting and political intrigue. Two teams are pitted against each other, each to design and build their own massive airship, modeled as ocean liners of the sky—one will fly to Canada, the other to India. By design, only one team will survive this deadly competition. As an outsider and seconded liaison officer between the two teams, Lou Remington’s mission is simple: Keep the peace between the warring parties and help prevent another national tragedy. But it is the misguided passions of the charismatic Lord Thomson, which have more to do with a certain Romanian princess than with aviation, which threaten Lou’s goals and forever change the lives of all involved, foreshadowing the demise of the British Empire. Praise for The Airshipmen This is a big story, layered and cinematic—one that I did not want to end. I could not imagine myself reading a book about airships, but it's much more than that—it’s about blinding love, vaulting ambition, loyalty, greed, deception and the whole gamut of human frailty. It’s about a wonderful group of people that I came to love—full of secrets and surprises. I could not put this book down. Edith Schorah, Editor, FL. Hats off! A gripping story masterfully told, the book reverberates in the reader’s mind long after it is over. The characters are believable and involving, complicated, rich and conflicted. The chronicle renders these historical characters in flesh and blood, their saga replete with concrete and exquisite details. This is a wonderful book—humane and filled with the love of the men for their wives and families, while at the same time, highly attuned to the highest levels of power and the effect that the decisions made at those echelons influence, not only the course of human events on the grand scale, but the very humble small-scale lives of the men caught in the crossfire. It illuminates a fascinating period of recent history almost lost from view and it does justice to the complexities of the personalities of the people involved. Steven Bauer, Hollow Tree Press. I guess you could say that U.S.Marine, Lou Remington, is either the luckiest man on the planet -- or one of the most unlucky. If this were a Greek tale from Homer, we would have to assume that some god is manipulating events to keep him alive for his/her own amusement. When the R38 collapses inflames, he is one of a handful of survivors. As he convalesces, he falls in love with his nurse, Charlotte, who has one of those beautiful faces that could launch a thousand airships. As the plot develops, David Dennington weaves real life personalities into the plot. One of the most interesting for me is the Romanian Socialite Princess Marthe Bibesco, who becomes central to the politics surrounding the airship program by being friendly with the Secretary of Air Kit Thomson and Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald. She is universally admired for her beauty, as well as her intelligence. Her glamour is certainly tinged with tragedy. Nevil Shute Norway is likewise one of my favorite people to show up in this novel. It was a special pleasure for me is that he brings the writer and engineer in as a major character. It reminds me how much I enjoy his writing. Shute is working as an airs