US Seventh Fleet, Korea 1950-53: The first Cold War naval campaign

Naval dominance was crucial to the defence of South Korea, and this illustrated study explains how the US Navy brought its war-winning fleet to bear in a complex campaign.

Fought just five years after the US Navy's carrier-led forces swept into Tokyo Bay, the naval campaign in Korea was a very different war, and one that set the trend for naval warfare for the rest of the century.

In this book, Dr Corbin Williamson, a specialist on the US Navy of the period, explains how a fleet built to fi...