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HAPPY DISPATCHES: Journalistic pieces from Banjo Paterson’s days as a war correspondent
The beloved Australian writer, reporting for the Sydney Morning Herald on the Boer War, China, London, World War I, British generals, Churchill, Kipling, etc. Fine writing. Originally published in 1934….
THE STORY OF THE MALAKAND FIELD FORCE
-Second Colonial Library Edition-
This is a beautiful copy of the Second Colonial Library edition, bound in a vivid blue-green cloth, fascinatingly different from the standard Colonial Library gray-green cloth. The Second Colonial Library…
IAN HAMILTON’S MARCH
-Second Printing of the First English Edition-
A very good copy of the Second Printing of the First English edition, which the publisher designated as a “Second Edition” but which bibliographer Ronald Cohen argues is really more…
U.S. ARMY IN THE KOREAN WAR
Truce Tent and Fighting Front
The second of five volumes to be published on the United States and the Korean War, Truce and Tent Fighting covers the seemingly unending negotiations during the last two years…
SEA LANES IN WAR TIME: The American Experience, 1775-1942
Excellent analysis by noted author; may still be the best on the subject. The first half is chronological through the Civil War; second half is topical through the summer of…
LIFE: “The War Memoirs of Winston Churchill” (Volume One: “The Gathering Storm” Part II)
-Magazine Article-
The second installment of Winston Churchill’s WAR MEMOIRS in serialization; more than 20 pages, profuse with black & white and color illustrations. [Pages 48-55, 57-78…80] This is an original copy…
TOBACCO CARD: “Winston L.S. Churchill, War Correspondent”
A very early Boer War-era tobacco card featuring Great Britain’s highest paid war reporter of his time. Manufactured in 1901 for Ogden’s Tab Cigarettes, the card measures 2 1/4 x…
MIDDLE EAST WAR PROJECTS
OF JOHNSON, DRAKE & PIPER, INC. FOR THE CORPS OF ENGINEERS, 1942-1943
Privately printed by Johnson, Drake & Piper documenting their engineering and construction projects in the Middle East for the U.S. Army during World War II, including Egypt, the Sudan, the…
WINSTON CHURCHILL IN PEACE AND WAR
This is a very good First Edition copy of the updated World War I edition issued by the author, A. MacCallum Scott, of his 1905 biography, WINSTON SPENCER CHURCHILL; the…
TELEPHONE MEN & WOMEN IN WAR
Employees of the company who served in World War II; all services, all theaters. A very good copy, spine head & tail frayed, spine faded, published without dust jacket. (213p.,…
THE WONDER OF WAR IN THE AIR
World War I Aviation adventure fiction. A very good copy of the First American edition, without dust jacket, lightly shelfworn, contents fine.
CHURCHILL’S WAR AGAINST THE ZEPPELIN 1914-18
Men, Machines and Tactics
…thousand were wounded by Zeppelin bombing during the course of World War I. This book explores the development of the airship, the efforts to defend Britain against the attacks, and…