Book Review – Zeppelin. Volume 2

Zeppelin. Volume 2. R. L. Rimmell. Albatross Publications Ltd. 2008. 74 pages (A4 glossy format with appendices). £25.00 (paperback)
Sent to us as a pair, this book details the German ‘R’ Class Zeppelins which attacked Britain beginning in the autumn of 1916. L33’s one and only raid occurred on the night of 23/24 September 1916, and with the fall of L32 over Great Burstead the day became known as ‘Zepp Sunday’. L33 was fired at from the biplane of Alfred de Bathe Brandon flown up from Hainault. He managed to deflate but not ignite its airbags. The crew, led by Oberleutnant Bocker, landed their craft in a field at Little Wigborough. The crew were picked up on the Peldon road and arrested by the local constabulary.
The forced landing, and the fact that the crew were unable to successfully torch their craft, enabled the British to examine every part of the Zeppelin.