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TOBACCO CARD: “Earl Roberts, Commander-in-Chief of the British Army”
A very early Boer War-era tobacco card featuring a bust-length portrait photograph of General Earl Roberts, “Commander-in-Chief of the British Army” during the Boer War. The verso is blank. The…
TOBACCO CARD: “Maj. W.L.S. Churchill, MP”
Exceedingly rare World War I-era tobacco card, Number 6 of 25 manufactured for Imperial Tobacco Co. of Canada’s “”Notabilities” series. Issued in 1917, well after Churchill’s resignation as First Lord…
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…
TYPED LETTER SIGNED BY WINSTON CHURCHILL TO JOHN “JOCK” COLVILLE
-Initial Signed: "Yours sincerely, W"-
A typed letter on 28 Hyde Park Gate letterhead, dated “15 October, 1950” to John Colville, Churchill’s Private Secretary during World War II and after, right through Churchill’s second stint…
WINSTON CHURCHILL’S TAX REFUND
TYPED DOCUMENT SIGNED BY WINSTON CHURCHILL To The Inspector of Taxes
…any income tax Post-War credit to which I am entitled for the years 1944/1945 and 1945/1946.” The amount proved to be £65. The original Certificate of Post-War Credit confirmation is…
QUESTIONS AND ANALYSIS IN HISTORY: CHURCHILL
…answers at the end of each chapter. The author was head of Corporate Education at the Imperial War Museum and taught at the Cabinet War rooms. As new, in wraps….
CHURCHILL’S COOKBOOK
As-new, the first reissue ever of the renowned RECIPES FROM NO. 10, written by the Churchill family’s revered chef during the war and after, Georgina Landemare, who gave up a…
DISASTER IN KOREA
The Chinese Confront MacArthur
On November 24th, 1950 General MacArthur ordered an attack on the Yalu River running between China and North Korea with the intention of ending the Korean War. This volume, the…
SELECTED WORKS OF MAO TSE-TUNG
Volume II
The War against Japan, role of party in national war, etc. A very good copy, covers slightly soiled….
ACHIEVING VICTORY
World War II
“A narrative of national strategic planning and its trials and tribulations in the mid- war period of World War II. A good copy in chipped and stained dust jacket (191…
Collier’s: “The Man Who Saved Paris”
-Magazine Article-
The third in a series of six Churchill articles about the First World War, conceived originally under the rubric: “Crucial Crises in the War.” This was the first appearance for…
WITH MY OWN EYES
A Personal Story of Battle Years
A newsman in Alaska, the Philippine Rebellion, the Boxer Rebellion, the Russo-Japanese War and World War I. A very good copy, spine head & tail somewhat worn, without dust jacket….