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A SERVANT OF THE CROWN IN ENGLAND AND NORTH AMERICA, 1756-61
Based on the account books of John Appy, this work chronicles the life of one British functionary whose travels to America during the French Indian War provide a detailed picture…
THE GREAT EARL OF PETERBOROUGH
Biography of Charles Mordaunt (1658-1735), ardent opponent of James II, supporter of William of Orange, commander of British forces in the War of the Spanish Succession. A good ex-library copy,…
A GUNNER ABOARD THE “YANKEE”
From the Diary of Number Five of the After Port Gun
A New York Naval reservist on an auxiliary cruiser in the Cuban blockade squadron. A classic Spanish-American War memoir. Reading copy, without dust jacket. (38 illus. [4 color], appendix.)…
EDUCATION BEFORE VERDUN
First novel in Zweig’s war trilogy; followed by The Case of Sergeant Grischa and The Crowning of a King. Original German title: Erziehung vor Verdun. Roman (1935). Translated from the…
THE REASON WHY
The feud between Lucan and Cardigan and the charge of the Light Brigade at Balaclava in the Crimean War; due to an ambiguous order, 488 out of 673 men were…
THE INVISIBLE GOVERNMENT
…with the CIA at its center, that conducts the clandestine policies of the united states in the cold war. A very good copy, spine tail bumped, in chipped dust jacket….
THE KREMLIN LETTERS
Stalin’s Wartime Correspondence with Churchill and Roosevelt
More than 600 messages exchanged over the course of the war, here contextualized and analyzed by historians Reynolds and Pechatnov using much newly-declassified information from British, American and Russian archives….