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THE SANTA FE TRAIL
Originally the trade route with Mexico, this trail connecting Santa Fe with Missouri also served as the 1846 invasion route during the Mexican-American War, and then again as the major…
BRASSHAT
A Biography of Field Marshall Sir Henry Wilson 1864-1922
Boer War; Commandant, Camberley, senior WWI staff positions & Chief Imperial Gen. Staff, 2/18/18 to 1922. A very good copy, in dust jacket. Discreet bookshop sticker on front pastedown.
JANE’S FIGHTING SHIPS
1942 (Issued June, 1943)
The bible for technical information on warships since 1898. This is one of the scarcer World War II editions. A fair copy, spine shaken as usual, covers worn & somewhat…
BATTLESHIP SAILOR
Radioman 1940 to Pearl Harbor. Glimpse of pre-war Navy. A very good copy, in dust jacket. ( 265p., 50 illus., plans.) Owner name and address in ink on front free…
COSMOPOLITAN: “Adventures in the Air”
-Magazine Article-
…of His Experiences in the Years Before the War & Some Memories of Gustav Hamel.” The essay was later included in THOUGHTS AND ADVENTURES. This is a very good copy…
TOBACCO CARD: “Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill, MP”
World War I-era tobacco card, Number 6 of 50 manufactured for Scissors Cigarettes’ “Britain’s Defenders” series. Issued in 1915, before Churchill’s resignation as First Lord of the Admiralty, the card…
TOBACCO CARD: “The Right Hon. Winston Churchill”
World War I-era tobacco card, Number 3 of 50 manufactured in Australia for W.D. & H.O. Wills Ltd.s’ “Britain’s Defenders” series. The bust-length photograph is credited to “Bassano.” Issued in…
TOBACCO CARD: “Right Hon. Winston Churchill”
‘Has He Ever Served A Foreign Government!’
…“. . . As first Lord, he was largely responsible for the preparedness of the Navy at the outbreak of the Great War.” The card is in very good condition….
RICHMOND REDEEMED
The Siege at Petersburg
…history, by the Archivist/Historian at the U.S. Army War College’s Military History Institute. A very good copy, in chipped, price-clipped dust jacket with worn edges, corners & spine tail bumped….
THE ZULU KINGS
From Shaka to their ultimate defeat in the 1879 Zulu War. A superior Book Club printing. A very good copy, spine head & tail & corners somewhat worn, in dust…
SOLDIERS AND STATESMEN 1914-1918
-First English Edition-
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, 1917-1918. This is a very good…
UNDER FIRE
Israel’s 20-Year Struggle for Survival
This is a very good copy of the First American edition in worn dust jacket. Anthology of accounts, from Israel’s establishment through the Six Day War.