The count’s invention was also pressed into service as a terrifying new
weapon, which was used during the First World War to bomb Britain. In the World
War I Document Archive at
http://www.lib.byu.edu/~rdh/wwi/memoir/zeppelin.html
you can read a gripping account of how the airships’ crews dumped their deadly
load on two small towns in the industrial West Midlands. Their intended target
was Liverpool, more than a hundred kilometres to the northwest.
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