Description
Inscribed to former FBI and CIA Director Bill Webster, the first edition of Aircraft Carriers at War by Admiral James L. Holloway III.
Octavo, xiii, 479pp. Purple hardcover, black cloth spine, title in gilt. The second printing, with a matching number line on the copyright page. Illustrated with photographs and maps. Foreword by President George H.W. Bush. In the publisher’s fine dust jacket.
Inscribed by Holloway to William H. “Bill” Webster, former director of the FBI and CIA: “To my friend Bill Webster in appreciation for his national leadership as Director of the FBI and the CIA, and with special recognition of his active service in WWII and Korea as a naval officer serving aboard our ships deployed to the fleet. Jim Holloway / Admiral US Navy / CNO 1974-1978.”
A unique national security association copy.
Holloway and Webster worked together on Vice President Bush’s 1985 Task Force on Combating Terrorism. Holloway directed the task force’s work, while Webster participated as FBI director.
