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When Giants Ruled the Sky John J. Geoghegan

When Giants Ruled the Sky By John J. Geoghegan

When Giants Ruled the Sky by John J. Geoghegan

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

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When Giants Ruled the Sky: The Brief Reign and Tragic Demise of the American Rigid Airship by John J. Geoghegan

Almost everything you know about airships is wrong. Between 1917 and 1935, the US Navy poured tens of millions of dollars into their airship programme, building a series of dirigibles each one more enormous than the last. These flying behemoths were to be the future of long-distance transport, competing with trains and ocean liners to carry people, post and cargo from country to country, and even across the sea. But by 1936 all these ambitious plans had been scrapped. What happened? When Giants Ruled the Sky is the story of how the American rigid airship came within a hair's breadth of dominating long-distance transportation. It is also the story of four men whose courage and determination kept the programme going despite the obstacles thrown in their way - until the Navy deliberately ignored a fatal design flaw, bringing the programme crashing back to earth. The subsequent cover-up prevented the truth from being told for more than eighty years. Now, for the first time, what really happened can be revealed.

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Totally captivating. A fascinating account of glory and tragedy that soars with suspense. I enjoyed the hell out of it!

-- Dirk Cussler

When Giants Ruled the Sky examines the successes, problems and controversies of the American rigid airship program bringing the industrialists and engineers who designed and built them, and the officers and men who flew them, to life. No airship fancier's library should be without a copy.

-- Tom Crouch

It's too often forgotten that for a few short years the U.S. Navy actually possessed flying aircraft carriers and the world's greatest airship fleet. In his latest book, John Geoghegan has performed sterling service in excavating the astounding story of the Akron and the Macon from the tomb of lost history.

-- Alexander Rose

A well-researched history of the rigid airship carrier during the interwar years of U.S. naval aeronautics. A genuine contribution.

-- William Althoff
This extremely readable and gripping new account of the US Navy rigid airship programme and the demise of its giant flying aircraft carriers Akron and Macon, draws on fresh statements and personal accounts to tell the story through the eyes of those directly involved. The best book on the subject by far. -- Alastair Reid
The best book focused upon the USS Akron & Macon published in the last 55 years! -- C.P. Hall

About John J. Geoghegan

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.

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NGR9780750987837
9780750987837
0750987839
When Giants Ruled the Sky: The Brief Reign and Tragic Demise of the American Rigid Airship by John J. Geoghegan
John J. Geoghegan
New
Hardback
The History Press Ltd
2021-10-29
464
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