Aircraft Carriers at War: A Personal Retrospective of Korea, Vietnam, and the Soviet Confrontation

by James L. Holloway III

Book Overview

Adm. James Holloway describes this book as a contemporary perspective of the events, decisions, and outcomes in the history of the Cold War--Korea, Vietnam, and the Soviet confrontation--that shaped today's U.S. Navy and its principal ships-of-the-line, the large-deck, nuclear-powered aircraft carriers. Without question, the admiral is exceptionally well qualified to write such an expansive history. As a carrier pilot in Korea, commander of the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1591143918
• ISBN13: 9781591143918
• Release Date: May 2007
• Publisher: US Naval Institute Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.4" x 8.9"