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WINSTON S. CHURCHILL: WAR CORRESPONDENT 1895-1900

By: Winston S. Churchill (edited by Frederick Woods)

Originally published in 1972 as YOUNG WINSTON’S WARS, this collection reprints Churchill’s early despatches as a young war correspondent writing from the Northwest Frontier, the Sudan and South Africa, plus…

THE BAD WAR

An Oral History of the Vietnam War

By: Kim Willenson

The collection includes 75 personal accounts of the Vietnam war from a wide range of often conflicting perspectives. A very good copy, in mylar covered dust jacket….

ONCE UPON A DISTANT WAR

Young War Correspondents and the Early Vietnam Battles

By: William Prochnau

…the Vietnam War had yet to become the massive tragedy that we know today. According to Prochnau, Saigon was a “tempting oriental backwater” and it is in this setting that…

THE KOREAN WAR

By: Max Hastings

Combining personal accounts with archival sources, Hastings explores this major 20th century conflict that is arguably the direct predecessor of the Vietnam war yet remains largely untouched by popular military…

CHURCHILL’S WAR LAB

Code-Breakers, Scientists and the Mavericks Churchill Led to Victory

By: Taylor Downing

A unique contribution to Churchill scholarship, Downing mines Churchill’s fascination with new technologies, espionage and the “science of war” in the modern age, arguing that Allied victory was due in…

THE CIVIL WAR

By: Otto Eisenschiml

Vol. I: The American Iliad as Told By Those Who Lived It, Vol. II: The Picture Chronicle of the Events, Leaders and Battlefields of the War. Vol. 1 was published…

MARY CHURCHILL’S WAR

The Wartime Diaries of Churchill’s Youngest Daughter

By: Mary Soames (Edited and Introduced by Emma Soames)

Followup to Lady Soames’ 2012 memoir, A DAUGHTER’S TALE, comprising her wartime diaries, 1939-1945. Though self-characterized by Lady Soames herself as “the diary of an ordinary person’s life in war…

WITHIN LIMITS. THE U.S. AIR FORCE AND THE KOREAN WAR.

Korean War fiftieth anniversary commemorative edition. 61pages, 12 illustrations, 2 maps, bibliography….

REGULATIONS OF THE WAR DEPARTMENT GOVERNING THE ORGANIZED MILITIA

By: War Department, Adjutant General’s Office

Document 319, superseded by the 1910 “Regulations for the Organized Militia … ” A good copy, covers a bit rumpled, some edge wear, slight dampstaining in front matter, name on…

THE OUTPOST WAR

U.S. Marines in Korea, Volume 1: 1952

By: Lee Ballenger

Written by a combat veteran of the Korean War, this volume examines the atypical and largely defensive role played by the U.S. Marine Corps during the period of stalemate beginning…

WAR, PEACE, AND THE VIET CONG

By: Douglas Pike

While not attempting to predict the outcome of the Vietnam War, Pike examines the motives and objectives of the interested parties in an attempt to understand various possibilities for the…

FRENCH WAR DEBT

-Rare Pamphlet-

“Agreement for the settlement of the war debt of France and Great Britain with an exchange of letters between the Chancellor of the Exchequer [Winston S. Churchill] and the French…