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SOLDIERS AND STATESMEN 1914-1918
-Slipcased First American Edition in Dust Jackets-
War memoirs by the first British Army soldier to rise from private to field marshal; COS to Haig,1915-1916; Chief of the Imperial General Staff, 1917-191 This is an astonishingly beautiful…
TAIL OF THE PAPER TIGER
On location for the associated press in June of 1950 when fighting broke out, King delivers a first hand account of the war and the situation in Korea up to…
FROM THE DANUBE TO THE YALU
…communism. According to the front cover he describes the Korean conflict as “a war we might have won.” A very good copy, in a mylar covered, slightly soiled, dust jacket….
ONE DAMNED ISLAND AFTER ANOTHER
The Saga of the Seventh Air Force in World War II
The history of the U.S. Seventh Air Force in the Pacific in World War II, in combat from start to finish. Uncommon and excellent, despite the unfortunate condition. A good…
PIGBOAT 39
An American Sub Goes to War
The service of an old U.S. S-class submarine in the Pacific from Pearl Harbor until she grounded in August, 1942, including five war patrols. By the wife of one of…
THE PINEAPPLE AIR FORCE
Pearl Harbor to Tokyo
…a prolific historian of World War II aviation. As new, published without dust jacket. (214p., profuse black & white photos, 26 color photos, 8 color side-views of aircraft, color plate…
“Q” BOAT ADVENTURES
The Exploits of the Famous Mystery Ships by a “Q” Boat Commander
Exploits of the U-Boat-hunting “Q Ships” of World War I. These well-disguised, commonplace boats of every description were packed with hidden deadly weapons and dispatched to hunt German U-Boats. This…
CONSPIRACY OF ONE
Tyler Kent's Secret Plot against FDR, Churchill, and the Allied War Effort
The saga of an American code clerk’s attempt to undermine FDR before Pearl Harbor by leaking smuggled documents, including top-secret correspondence from Winston Churchill requesting assistance in the war effort….
DESTINY IN THE DESERT
The Road to El Alamein - The Battle that Turned the Tide of World War II
For Winston Churchill, the victory at El Alamein in November 1942 marked the turning point of World War II. Dimbleby relates the backstory leading to this critical battle, along with…
YOUNG WINSTON’S WARS
-First English Book Club Edition-
A marvelous collection that reprints Churchill’s early despatches as a young war correspondent writing from India, the Sudan and South Africa. This is a very good copy of the First…
THE MEMOIRS OF LORD CHANDOS
The memoirs of Churchill’s Minister of State in charge of coordinating military and political affairs in the Middle East during World War II. This is a Second Impression copy of…
POILU
The World War I Notebooks of Corporal Louis Barthas, Barrelmaker 1914-1918
A French foot soldier’s extraordinary World War I story of four years in the trenches, initially published in France in 1978, now translated into English. New, in dust jacket.