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Excerpt from Military Observation Balloons (Captive and Free): A Complete Treatise on Their Manufacture, Equipment, Inspection, and Handling, With Special Instructions for the Training of a Field Balloon Company The value and importance of a volume covering the field of military balloons becomes obvious since keen students of the present world war have declared that the struggle will be won in the air. This book on the man ufacture, equipment, inspection and handling of military observation balloons gives a complete survey of the field. It is based on the Balloon Manual of the German Army. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.