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COMMON DESTINY
Dictatorship, Foreign Policy, and War in Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany
Comparing the structure and dynamics in the two countries. Also has a fair amount on the Italian Army at war, 1940-43. A very good copy, without dust jacket (262p., notes,…
GARBO
The Spy who Save D-Day
…dust jacket. An account of the wartime activities of the first major double agent in the history of espionage, Juan Pujol, with an introduction on British intelligence during the war….
THE DUKE OF CORNWALL’S OWN RIFLES: A Regimental History of the Forty-Third Regiment, Active Militia of Canada
-Signed and Inscribed Presentation Copy-
…a faint damp-spot on front cover. Contents fine and include period advertisements from Ottawa-area businesses. The Forty-Third Regiment served in the Fenian Raids, the Northwest Rebellion and the Boer War….
FROM PRESIDENT TO PRISON
A Polish novelist, journalist, explorer and professor, Ossendowski was a chemist cooperating with the Russian army during the Russo-Japanese War. After the 1905 revolution he was briefly president of the…
TRUXTUN OF THE CONSTELLATION
The Life of Commodore Thomas Truxtun, U.S. Navy 1755-1822
The first full length biography pf Truxtun, who was privateersman in the Revolution and fought in the Quasi-War with France. Facsimile reprint of the 1956 first edition. A near fine…
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…
TURMOIL AND TRADITION
A Study of the Life and TImes of Henry L. Stimson
The story of an American statesman, who served as Secretary of War, Governor-General of the Philippines, and Secretary of State. A very good copy, owner’s name in ink on front…
GENERALISSIMO CHURCHILL
Thompson’s third critique expands his analysis from Montgomery to all the generals, saying Churchill should have left war plans to the brass. A very good copy, in a price-clipped dust…
WINSTON CHURCHILL
An Informal Study of Greatness
…many people who knew Churchill as far back as the Boer War. There is no index unfortunately but the book is an unexpected gem nonetheless. The contents here are fine….
MEMORIES AND ADVENTURES
…and revisits his early adventures following in the footsteps of his father and grandfather as a war correspondent. This is a very good First American edition copy, in dust jacket….
THIRD ANNUAL REPORT OF THE STATE HISTORIAN OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, 1897
…and the cloth cover is lightly soiled; else fine. Contents are remarkably clean and unfoxed. Contains lengthy Colonial muster rolls and articles on Civil War battles involving New York regiments….
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….