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“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.
SLEEP IN PEACE TONIGHT: A Novel
-Signed First American Edition-
A crackling historical novel of World War II that tracks President Roosevelt’s trusted emissary, Harry Hopkins, as he arrives in London to meet and assess the new British Prime Minister,…
MEMOIRS OF BASE HOSPITAL NO. 35
A very significant World War I momento, the memoirs of Base Hospital No. 35 in France from 1917-1919. Bound in original card wraps, which have chipped and frayed but are…
TO DWELL IN PEACE
An Autobiography
One of America’s great anti-war activists, a celebrity of the Sixties and beyond, tells his own story. A reading from this book took place here at Chartwell Booksellers in April…
WINGS OF GOLD
The U.S. Naval Air Campaign in World War II
…military historian Geral d Astor comes the first account of how the airplane transformed the U.S. Navy and paved the way to victory in the Pacific in World War II….
SWEPT CHANNELS
Being an Account of the Work of the Minesweepers in the Great War
A full and detailed World War I history of minesweepers and their crews, derived from their personal experiences. This is a bright and crisp copy of the First English edition,…
HERO OF THE EMPIRE
The Boer War, a Daring Escape and the Making of Winston Churchill
Young Winston Churchill and his reputation-making Boer War escape of 1900; a story that has been told many times before, re-retold here by the celebrated author of DESTINY OF THE…