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TOBACCO CARD: “Mr. Winston Churchill”
A very early Boer War-era tobacco card featuring Great Britain’s Boer War hero, manufactured for The American Tobacco Co.’s “Boer War Series B” of 1901. The card measures 2 1/4…
WINSTON CHURCHILL AND EMERY REVES CORRESPONDENCE, 1937-1964
-First American Edition-
…articles in newspapers around the world during the years leading up to World War II, then acted as his agent following the war negotiating the publication of his war memoirs…
UNIFORM REGULATIONS FOR THE ARMY OF THE UNITED STATES 1861
Illustrated with contemporary official war department photographs. A very good copy, cover slightly faded (61 pages)….
MALTA AIRMEN
New Zealanders in the defense of Malta, World War II, including Malta’s Air Officer Commanding. From the New Zealand in the Second World War Official History series. A very good…
TOP GUNS
America’s Fighter Aces Tell Their Stories
Twenty-seven U.S. aces from all services tell their stories, from World War I through Vietnam (though most are from World War II), by the legendary Marine Corps ace. As new,…
I ATTACKED PEARL HARBOR
By the commander of one of the five midget submarines that participated in the attack, who later became the first Japanese POWs of the war. First hand Japanese accounts of…
MARK SYKES
His Life and Letters
Soldier, adventurer, diplomat, Sykes served in the Boer War and was a figure in World War I-era Middle East politics before his early death in 1919. This is a second…
THE POLTAVA AFFAIR
A Russian Warning, an American Tragedy
“A minute-by-minute account of the secret World War II operation that foreshadowed the Cold War.” A very good copy, spine and corners slightly bumped, dust jacket faded with slightly worn…
TOBACCO CARD: “Maj. Gen. Ian Hamilton”
A very early Boer War-era tobacco card featuring a bust-length portrait photograph of Churchill’s favorite Boer War colleague. The verso is blank. The card is in very good condition.
CHURCHILL WANTED DEAD OR ALIVE
Winston Churchill’s granddaughter brilliantly reconstructs Churchill’s experiences as a war correspondent during the Boer War in South Africa, including his infamous escape from a Boer prison, an escape that received…
FIGHTER ACES
“The dramatic saga of pilots who became aces, with five or more aerial victories in fighter-type aircraft, from World War 1 throught the korean war. A very good copy, in…
THE BEAUTY AND THE SORROW
An Intimate History of the First World War
Focused on 20 people – from a 12-year-old German girl to a French civil servant and an American woman married to a Polish aristocrat – Englund’s account of World War…