ASIN: B002DML3NQ
Publisher: Craig's Press
Pages: 192
To see a video on this book, visit http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FxexnqdlUv8.This novel deals with the Union Balloon Corps in the Civil War. At the start of the Civil War, Nathaniel Curry is a fifteen-year-old telegraph operator in Richmond. He travels to Washington to see a balloon demonstration and finds himself, entirely by accident, assisting Thaddeus Lowe in directing artillery fire on a Confederate emplacement – the first use of an aircraft in warfare.A pariah back in Virginia, Nathaniel joins the nascent Union Balloon Corps, the world’s first air force. The Corps, a motley collection of adventurers, science enthusiasts and misfits, struggles to find its place within the Union Army. The aeronauts prove valuable, providing information on enemy positions and movements, but are too unruly to be accepted by the military establishment.Nathaniel, a Southerner, is suspected of being a ...
