The book, Sky Sailors: The Story Of The World's Airshipmen tells the heretofore untold story of the "sky sailors", the men who pioneered the use of lighter-than-air airships, a mode of transport virtually forgotten in the late twentieth century.  "Sky Sailors: The Story Of The World's Airshipmen" describes the early days of airships and their brave crews, mixing text with first-hand accounts by airshipmen from England, Germany, Italy And the U.S.A.  This book begins with the airship movement in Paris in the 1890s, and then moves on to review the development of British and German military airships during World War I including both blimps and Zeppelin-type dirigibles.  During the interwar years, development of rigid airships by England and Germany are explored, as well as, the United States' military use of rigid airships to carry aircraft.  Also reviewed is the United States Navy's use of smaller blimps during World War II for anti-submarine patrol duties in the Atlantic and Pacific oceans.  "Sky Sailors: The Story Of The World's Airshipmen" also touches on the use of airships by smaller, civilian operators along with the fatal disasters of the passenger carrying German Hindenberg, the R 101 and the American Shenandoah.  With the exception of a small number of lighter-than-air airships operated for advertising purposes, by the end of the twentieth century, blimps had all but disappeared.  The major sections of " Sky Sailors: The Story Of The World's Airshipmen" are as follows: 1) List Of Illustrations; 2) Preface; 3) Acknowledgements; 4) Introduction; 5) Chapter One - The Pioneers; 6) Chapter Two - 1914; 7) Chapter Three - The RNAS In The First World War; 8) Chapter Four - The Final Years; 9) Chapter Five - British Rigid Airships 1917-19; 10) Chapter Six German Airshipmen; 11) Chapter Seven - Zeppelins Between The Wars; 12) Chapter Eight Triumph And Tragedy In The Arctic; 13) Chapter Nine - American Airshipmen; 14) Chapter Ten - Aftermath Of The Second World War; 15) Chapter Eleven - Small Civilian Operators; 16) Chapter Twelve - Conclusion; 17) Appendix 1 - Airship Sheds; 18) Appendix 2 - Mooring-Out Sites; 19) Appendix 3 - LZ-127, The Graf Zeppelin; 20) Bibliography & Sources and 21) Index.  In addition to an informative narrative, "Sky Sailors: The Story Of The World's Airshipmen" includes the following features: 1) Approximately 88 black and white photographs and 2) 1 map.  " Sky Sailors: The Story Of The World's Airshipmen" tells the exciting story of the extraordinary lighter-than-air airshipmen and is sure to appeal to all with an interest in aviation history.  This book is 174 pages and is in excellent condition.  The author is Ces Mowthorpe.  Edition published in 1999.