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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…
CHURCHILL IN HIS TIME
A STUDY IN A REPUTATION
…purport to explain Churchill’s plummet in popularity at home during the war and after. Published in the U.S. under the title: CHURCHILL IN POWER. Dismissed by the Times Literary Supplement…
TOBACCO CARD: “Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill, MP”
World War I-era tobacco card, Number 3 of 50 manufactured for Scissors Cigarettes’ “Britain’s Defenders” series. Issued in 1915, after Churchill’s resignation as First Lord of the Admiralty, the card…
TOBACCO CARD: “Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill, MP”
World War I-era tobacco card, Number 3 of 50 manufactured for Scissors Cigarettes’ “Britain’s Defenders” series f 1915.,br> Issued in 1915, after Churchill’s resignation as First Lord of the Admiralty,…
SAVROLA
-“Sevenpenny Library” Edition in the Rare Dust Jacket-
A clothbound paperback-equivalent of the World War I-era, this small and rather fragile “Cheap” edition did not age well and its striking dust jacket rarely survived and is virtually never…
CHURCHILL: The End of Glory
Headline-making revisionist history in it’s day, authored by a very good writer with very muddled ideas about Winston Churchill and World War II. This is a very good copy of…
LLOYD GEORGE
War Leader
The fourth volume of Grigg’s definitive biography, covering Lloyd George’s World War I Prime Ministership. This is a very good copy of the First English edition, in an unclipped dust…