Christopher, John: Balloons at War: Gasbags, Flying Bombs and Cold War Secrets.(Book Review)

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Christopher, John Balloons At War: Gasbags, Flying Bombs and Cold War Secrets Gloucestershire: Tempus 224 pp., $35.00, ISBN 0-7524-2995-7 Publication Date: April 2005

John Christopher is a balloonist, freelance graphic designer, and journalist who lives in South Gloucestershire in England. He presents an overview of the history of balloons at war from the first flights of the Montgolfier brothers in France to the use of balloons during the Cold War.

Christopher has produced an interesting and highly readable overview of the history of balloons at war. The eighteen short ...

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