Buy this book on-line LANSDOWN,JOHN R.P: : WITH THE CARRIERS IN KOREA: The Sea and Air War in SE Asia,1950-53UK.WILMSLOW,CHESHIRE,CRECY PUBLISHING LIMITED,1997. ISBN 0947554645.
UK,Qrto HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj - publisher's price obscured by previous bookseller's business label.Bright,crisp, clean,glossy laminated,contemporary b/w photographic illustrated dw/dj panels with white+yellow lettering; with negligible shelf-wear or creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Top+fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight, clean,solid and sound - pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners,appears unread - apart from my own collation.Bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered,publisher's original plain yellow cloth bds with bright,crisp,stamped gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate b/w war theatre map illustrated eps.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,vii-viiipp+1-520pp [paginated] includes contents list/table, acknowledgements,a foreword by Vice-Admiral Sir Edward Anson KCB,FRAeS,an intro,16 chapters,profuse contemporary b/w photographs throughout the text and the book,appendices (A-I) and an index,plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages,and b/w photographic illustrated frntis (Pusan Cemetery Commonwealth Memorial).
Although within living memory of those who took part,and their families,the Korean war has been largely neglected in publishing. There have been only a small number of books available and these have tended to detail the actions of the British, Commonwealth and US armies.The fact that the British and Commonwealth navies,and particularly the Fleet Air Arm,were heavily involved has been largely overlooked.
This imbalance has at last been redressed by an author who,as a Lt. Commander,served with the Fleet Air Arm (FAA) in Korea aboard the aircraft carrier HMS Glory.In this book,John Lansdown has produced the definitive record of this era,including a hsitorical perspective of the period leading up to the conflict and a fukk and detailed history od sea and air operations in South East Asia from 1950- 1953.All Royal Navy and United States Navy ships involved in the conflict are mentioned,and all the carriers which saw action are detailed in the text.
This vital work of reference is enlivened by a stunning photographic content and extracts from the Squadron Diaries and Line Books,covering every day that aircraft flew into battle.A unique and absorbing book.
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