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WAR AND ADMINISTRATION: The Significance of the Crimean War for the British Army
Reforms in the aftermath of one of the worst managed wars in history. A very good copy, in slightly rubbed dust jacket. (174p., 2 maps, 2 Tables of Organization, notes,…
THE NEW ZEALAND PEOPLE AT WAR: WAR ECONOMY
Official History of New Zealand in the Second World War 1939-45
A virtually mint copy copy, in a shelfworn but altogether intact dust jacket.
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
-First English Edition (Second Printing)-
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…
THE TIME FOR DECISION
-First English Edition-
FDR’s wartime Special Envoy to Europe analyzes the causes of World War II in the midst of World War II, placing the blame squarely on the failures of U.S. policy…
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….
CHURCHILL’S SECRET WAR
The British Empire and the Ravaging of India During Word War II
…as a bulwark againt Japan, and spent years before and after World War II warning of the bloodshed he envisioned when independence would be granted and attempting to protect the…
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…
RECORD OF PENNSYLVANIA VOLUNTEERS IN THE SPANISH AMERICAN WAR 1898
This is a very good copy of the Second Edition without dust jacket. The book has been professionally rebound in red cloth with the original title section affixed to the…