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John J. Geoghegan

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John J. Geoghegan

John J. Geoghegan reports on unusual inventions that fail to succeed in the marketplace despite their innovative nature. He has written extensively about these “white elephant technologies” for the New York Times Science section, Smithsonian Air & Space, WIRED, Popular Science, Aviation History, and the San Francisco Chronicle Sunday Magazine, among other publications. OPERATION STORM is his first book.

John J. Geoghegan

Books by John J. Geoghegan

Operation Storm: Japan's Top Secret Submarines and Its Plan to Change the Course of World War II
by John J. Geoghegan - History, Nonfiction

In 1941, the architects of Japan's sneak attack on Pearl Harbor planned a bold follow-up: a potentially devastating air raid --- this time against New York City and Washington, DC. John Geoghegan’s meticulous research, including first-person accounts from the I-401 crew and the U.S. capturing party, creates a fascinating portrait of the Sen-toku's desperate push into Allied waters and the U.S. Navy's dramatic pursuit, masterfully illuminating a previously forgotten story of the Pacific war.