Margaret L. Goldsmith
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IN his fiery, adventurous youth he joined the Union Army in our Civil War, and became vitally interested in aeronautics. As a man he was known as the most fearless and audacious officer the Württemberg Army. At fifty-two he retired and began the great adventure of his life-the conquest of the air. Then, with magnificent courage, he rode over obstacle and failure to an achievement immortal in the history of flying. Originally published in 1931, this...
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1930 biography of Prussian World War I General and Field Marshal Paul von Hindenburg, who went on to become President of the Weimar Republic, written by journalist husband-and-wife team Margaret Goldsmith and Frederick Voigt. Paul von Hindenburg (1847-1934) was a German military officer, statesman, and politician who largely controlled German policy in the second half of World War I and served as the elected President of Germany from 1925 until his...