Career
He died in Sidmouth on 19 March 1981, aged 68. John Deane Potter was one of Fleet Street"s most prodigious reporters in the post-war years, covering many of the major events including the trial of Moors Murders Myra Hindley and Ian Brady in 1966. He served in Burma and India during the Second world war as a newspaper correspondent.
He was one of the first Western journalists to report from Hiroshima after the Atomic bomb was dropped on Japan in 1945, which is featured in his 1951 memoir, "Number Time for Breakfast".
He was a foreign correspondent for the Daily Express in London when the newspaper was the biggest selling newspaper in the United Kingdom. Potter"s non-fictional accounts of events were among the popular books of their time. His biography on Isoroku Yamamoto, the Japanese admiral and mastermind of Pearl Harbor in December 1941, was one of the earliest contemporary publications.
Potter’s most successful books was "Admiral of the Pacific", first published in Britain. 13 editions were published between 1965 and 1972, while Fiasco, had 23 editions between 1970 and 1974, in English and German.
According to Worldcat, Potter published 37 works in 121 publications in five languages.
He lived in Chelsea, London, and was twice married.
