The book, When Monsters Roamed the Skies: The Story Of The Dirigible Airship, tells the fascinating story of the great silver airships like the Graf Zeppelins, the Norge, the Shenandoah, the Los Angeles, the Akron, the Macon and many others that roamed the skies in a glorious age that came to an end with the tragic explosion of the luxurious Hindenburg at the Lakehurst, New Jersey Naval Air Station on May 6, 1937.  While man's dream of flight dates back to ancient times, it was not until the successful flight of the Montgolfier brothers hot air balloon in France in 1783 that it became a reality.  More than a century later, Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin launched in 1900, a cigar shaped giant that was 400 feet long and filled with flammable helium gas.  Soon people began to think that the dirigible not the airplane was the wave of the future in transportation.  Within a few years, all the major industrial countries in the world had firms building a variety of dirigibles that flew over every continent and ocean.  Lighter than air dirigibles found a place in the armed forces of many countries and were used extensively, especially by Imperial Germany, during World War I.  The development of dirigibles continued up until the famous Hindenburg disaster in 1937.  Thereafter, dirigibles were increasingly taken out of service in favor of faster, more modern heavier-than-air aircraft.  While non-rigid airships would see a comeback during World War II, the reign of the giant silver dirigibles was effectively over by the start of World War II.  The major sections of this book include the following: 1) Foreword; 2) The Early, Early Days; 3) "That Crazy Count"; 4) World War; 5) Aftermath; 6) Fleet Airship Number One; 7) Thunderstorm; 8) Events Abroad; 9) Success Story; 10) Eyes For The Fleet; 11) The Last Of The Zeppelins and 12) Index.  In addition to an informative narrative, this book includes the following features: 1) Approximately 77 black and white vintage photographs and 2) About 30 black and white illustrations.  In addition to the book itself, this offering includes the following three related newspaper articles: 1) 1915: Lusitania sinks; anti-German mood grows (Detroit Free Press reprint of May 9, 1915 article on March 29, 1981); 2) Goodyear Bags Goodwill, But Blimp Costs Balloon (Detroit Free Press October, 1974) and 3) Revival of dirigibles looms as transport pinch grows November 28, 1974).  This book is 143 pages and the dust cover is in good condition while the text is in very good condition.  The author is Joseph F. Hood.  Edition published in 1968.