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THE RIVER WAR: An Historical Account of the Reconquest of the Soudan
-New Unabridged Annotated Edition-
Mint, in publisher’s shrink-wrap. A complete, unabridged, two-volume reissue, thirty-one years in the making and 120 years after the original publication. Superbly annotated by historian James W. Muller, with a…
SECRETARIES OF WAR AND SECRETARIES OF THE ARMY
Portraits & Biographical Sketches
A collection of biographical sketches and portraits from 1781 to the publication date. Revised and updated from the 1982 first edition. A very good copy, published without dust jacket (177…
FLATLAND
-The Arion Press Edition-
…Abbott (who published pseudonymously under the name: “Square”) relates the story of a square living in a two-dimensional world who visits a world of lines, another comprised of just a…
THE POLTAVA AFFAIR
A Russian Warning, an American Tragedy
“A minute-by-minute account of the secret World War II operation that foreshadowed the Cold War.” A very good copy, spine and corners slightly bumped, dust jacket faded with slightly worn…
MELLON VS. CHURCHILL
The Untold Story of Treasury Titans at War
A fascinating reexamination of a little-known corner of Churchill’s vast career, his post-World War I duel with the great American tycoon, Andrew Mellon, over British war debt. New in dust…
TOBACCO CARD: “Maj. W.L.S. Churchill, MP”
Exceedingly rare World War I-era tobacco card, Number 6 of 25 manufactured for Imperial Tobacco Co. of Canada’s “”Notabilities” series. Issued in 1917, well after Churchill’s resignation as First Lord…
Collier’s: “The Man Who Saved Paris”
-Magazine Article-
The third in a series of six Churchill articles about the First World War, conceived originally under the rubric: “Crucial Crises in the War.” This was the first appearance for…
WITH MY OWN EYES
A Personal Story of Battle Years
A newsman in Alaska, the Philippine Rebellion, the Boxer Rebellion, the Russo-Japanese War and World War I. A very good copy, spine head & tail somewhat worn, without dust jacket….
THE BEAUTY AND THE SORROW
An Intimate History of the First World War
Focused on 20 people – from a 12-year-old German girl to a French civil servant and an American woman married to a Polish aristocrat – Englund’s account of World War…
I ATTACKED PEARL HARBOR
…World War II in English are few, and this important source is quite rare in any condition. This is a very good copy, without dust jacket, covers slightly soiled, corners…
FIGHTER ACES
“The dramatic saga of pilots who became aces, with five or more aerial victories in fighter-type aircraft, from World War 1 throught the korean war. A very good copy, in…
SQUADRON A
A History of Its First Fifty Years
The New York National Guard cavalry unit in the Spanish-American War and in World War I with the 27th Infantry Div. A good copy, corners a bit frayed, spine head…