…military historian Geral d Astor comes the first account of how the airplane transformed the U.S. Navy and paved the way to victory in the Pacific in World War II….
““There can be no hope for the world unless the peoples of Europe unite together to preserve their freedom, their culture and their civilisation… I have always tried to keep…
Exploits of the U-Boat-hunting “Q Ships” of World War I. These well-disguised, commonplace boats of every description were packed with hidden deadly weapons and dispatched to hunt German U-Boats. This…
…just about every word of Churchill’s letters, articles and book-length literary endeavors by hand herself. A very rare window into Churchill’s private working world during his darkest, yet most productive,…
…rising to speak at the Waldorf. “…I felt it was necessary for someone in an unofficial position to speak in arresting terms about the present plight of the world.” This…
…is a unique, full-length Churchill biography about the world that Winston Churchill created for himself away from politics. Written by Barry Singer, the founder and longtime proprietor of Chartwell Booksellers,…
…printed beneath the two portraits, was active in the world of hand-drawn first day stamp covers for the U.S. Postal Service. The poster is in mint condition, measures 16 x…
This is a very good copy of the so-called “Cheap Edition,” a rather small and fragile clothbound paperback-equivalent of the World War I-era. The cloth remains a deep red and…
Yet another expert analysis of an endlessly explosive topic. Could Churchill have prevented World War II with his anti-appeasement policy against Hitler? New, in dust jacket….
By one of our favorite authors, an extraordinarily wide-ranging view of Britain’s trench soldier poets during World War I and the ways in which these different classes of men processed…
By one of our favorite authors, an extraordinarily wide-ranging view of Britain’s trench soldier poets during World War I and the ways in which these different classes of men processed…
World War I-era tobacco card, Number 3 of 50 manufactured for Scissors Cigarettes’ “Britain’s Defenders” series f 1915.,br> Issued in 1915, after Churchill’s resignation as First Lord of the Admiralty,…