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CHINDWIN TO CRICCIETH: The Life of Godfrey Drage
Godfrey Drage served principally in Burma prior to World War I. In World War I he served in all four theaters, including Gallipoli. Uncommon. Most of the wartime episodes are…
ONE DAY OF THE CIVIL WAR
America in Conflict April 10, 1863
The midpoint of the war. A fine copy, in like dust jacket. (317p., 3 maps, appendix, notes, biblio., index.)…
CHURCHILL’S WAR – II
Triumph in Adversity
Convicted as a holocaust denier in a Vienna court in 2006, David Irving first published his notorious”Churchill’s War” in 1987, a book that only Tucker Carlson could countenance, riven with…
CIVIL WAR NURSE
The Diary and Letters of Hannah Ropes
Matron of the Union Hospital in Georgetown; appalled at the conditions, she went directly to the Secretary of War and forced improvements. She died of pneumonia in 1863. A fine…
THE BAD WAR
An Oral History of the Vietnam War
The collection includes 75 personal accounts of the Vietnam war from a wide range of often conflicting perspectives. A very good copy, in mylar covered dust jacket….
AMERICANS AT WAR
1975-1986, An Era of Violent Peace
Traces the series of violent conflicts in which the US Military involved itself in the decade following the “end” of war. A very good copy in slightly chipped dust jacket,…
KOREAN WAR ALMANAC
A wealth of current information on a variety of topics related to the Korean War including key personalities, strategies, weaponry, battles, military units and awards. A good copy, cover slightly…
SEA SOLDIERS IN THE COLD WAR
Amphibious Warfare, 1945-1991
“An operational history of amphibious warfare in the cold war, principally as refined and executed by the two superpowers, their allies, and surrogates.” A fine copy in very good dust…
ONCE UPON A DISTANT WAR
Young War Correspondents and the Early Vietnam Battles
…the Vietnam War had yet to become the massive tragedy that we know today. According to Prochnau, Saigon was a “tempting oriental backwater” and it is in this setting that…
WINSTON S. CHURCHILL: WAR CORRESPONDENT 1895-1900
Originally published in 1972 as YOUNG WINSTON’S WARS, this collection reprints Churchill’s early despatches as a young war correspondent writing from the Northwest Frontier, the Sudan and South Africa, plus…
CHURCHILL’S WAR LAB
Code-Breakers, Scientists and the Mavericks Churchill Led to Victory
A unique contribution to Churchill scholarship, Downing mines Churchill’s fascination with new technologies, espionage and the “science of war” in the modern age, arguing that Allied victory was due in…
BETWEEN THE LINES: Reflections on War and Peacetime
U.S. Air Force from 1941 to 1973: bomber maintenance, 5 & 13th Air Forces, Pacific, WWII; Korea, 3rd AF; England and Norway, Cold War. A very good copy, in dust…