When Giants Ruled the Sky - The Brief Reign and Tragic Demise of the American Rigid Airship

How the American airship came within a hair's breadth of replacing planes, trains, and ocean liners as dominant long-distance transport

About the author

JOHN J. GEOGHEGAN began his career as a Special Correspondent for the New York Times. His first book, Operation Storm (Crown 2013), tells the story of a squadron of Japanese underwater aircraft carriers purpose-built to launch an aerial raid against the US as a follow up to Pearl Harbor. The Wall Street Journal called it 'a fascinating, meticulously researched, and deft account.' It has since been translated into Dutch and Japanese, published in paperback, and inspired a Channel Five documentary.

Summary

How the American airship came within a hair's breadth of replacing planes, trains, and ocean liners as dominant long-distance transport

Product details

• Authors: John Geoghegan, John J. Geoghegan
• Publisher: The History Press Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.06.2022
• EAN: 9780750987837
• ISBN: 978-0-7509-8783-7
• Dimensions: 163 mm x 238 mm x 38 mm
• Weight: 824 g
• Subjects: Guides > Motor vehicles, aircraft, ships, space travel > Aircraft, space travel; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Individual industrial sectors, branches