The book, Lufthansa: An Airline And Its Aircraft traces the history and operations of Germany's national airline from its earliest years in 1919 when Lufthansa's first progenitor, Deutsche Luft-Reederei, established the crane symbol up through the late 1980s.  "Lufthansa: An Airline And Its Aircraft" is arguably the most definitive work of its type available in print.  The air transportation business in Germany was actually already airborne prior to World War I.  During this prewar period, Count Zeppelin's lighter-than-air dirigible airships carried more than ten thousand passengers thus establishing the first airline route systems in Germany.  During the postwar formative years, Lufthansa mirrored the progress of German aviation technology.  In 1919, the all-metal Junkers F-13 was years ahead of its time in terms of airframe structure.  Its direct descendant, the legendary Junkers Ju-52/3m "Tante Ju" was built in greater numbers than any other transport aircraft of this era except the Douglas DC-3.  The 1926 Rohrbach Roland's box-spar wing and stressed skin also harkened in the multi-cellular construction techniques still accepted as standard as of the late 1980s.  Lufthansa also launched other leading edge types from the 1938 transatlantic Focke-Wulf Fw-200 "Condor" to the latest Airbus family of aircraft of the 1980s.  "Lufthansa: An Airline And Its Aircraft" includes much noteworthy new material including a comprehensive genealogy of Lufthansa's many ancestors, concise surveys & adventures of overseas associates and innovative trans-ocean experiments including novel catapult-launched aircraft.  The major sections of "Lufthansa: An Airline And Its Aircraft" include the following: 1) Lighter-Than-Air Prelude; 2) Ancestral Heritage; 3) The Exploratory Years; 4) Ocean Conquest; 5) Flexing The Muscles; 6) Triumph And Tribulation; 7) Born Again; 8) Jets And More Jets and 9) Index.  In addition to an informative narrative, meticulously compiled tables of important data, "Lufthansa: An Airline And Its Aircraft" includes the following features: 1) Approximately 137 vintage black and white photographs; 2) About 70 color photographs; 3) Approximately 13 black and white illustrations and 4) About 41 different route maps.  "Lufthansa: An Airline And Its Aircraft" is sure to appeal to both aviation enthusiasts and historians alike.  This book is 90 pages and is in like-new condition.  The author is R.E.G. Davies with Mike Machat (illustrations).  Edition published in 1991.