About the book: 1971 / ““Mammoths” step into the future” - a book about airships. This is not an indifferent repetition of well-known facts, but a passionate, interested narrative about the history of the conquest of the air, about the creation of airships - from the first attempts of the clerk Kryakutny to the most advanced airships of our days. One of the glorious pages in the history of domestic and foreign technology opens for the reader.