Holding the Line: The Naval Air Campaign In Korea
Written by Thomas McKelvey Cleaver
Narrated by Sean Runnette
4.5/5
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About this audiobook
All of this was accomplished with a force that was in the midst of change, as jet aircraft altered the entire nature of naval aviation. Holding the Line chronicles the carrier war in Korea from the first day of the war to the last, focusing on front-line combat, while also describing the technical development of aircraft and shipboard operations, and how these all affected the broader strategic situation on the Korean Peninsula.
Thomas McKelvey Cleaver
Thomas McKelvey Cleaver has been a published writer for the past 40 years, with his most recent work being the best-selling Osprey titles MiG Alley (2019), I Will Run Wild (2020), Under the Southern Cross (2021), The Tonkin Gulf Yacht Club (2021), Going Downtown (2022), The Cactus Air Force (2022) alongside the late Eric Hammel, and most recently Clean Sweep (2023). Tom served in the US Navy in Vietnam and currently lives in Encino, California.
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Reviews for Holding the Line
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5If you're looking for a contemporary accounting of U.S. naval activities in the Korean War, you could do a lot worse than this synthesis. Cleaver tells a good narrative story and though he bleeds Navy blue and gold, he's quite forthright about his loyalties. What he probably does best is capture how hard it was for the U.S. and British carriers to function in the winter environment of Korea, while dealing with a near-crash transition to jet aircraft. Also good is that Cleaver is appropriately skeptical of many US strategic choices in the war, and is aware of the pattern of bad thinking that carried into Vietnam and, arguably, beyond.Less good is that Cleaver can be a little weak on the U.S. Army, as witnessed by the meme that won't die; the invocation of George S. Patton's "pearl-handled" guns. This leads us to suggest two books for further reading: "Combat Ready?" (Texas A&M, 2010) by Thomas E. Hanson and "Forgotten Warriors" (Kansas, 2010) by T.X. Hammes. These are excellent monographs that examine what the U.S. Army and Marines were respectively doing to prepare for the next war on the eve of Korea.