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WINGS OF GOLD
The U.S. Naval Air Campaign in World War II
…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….
“THIS COUNTRY NEEDS A NEW PARLIAMENT”
Speech by the Rt. Hon. Winston Churchill at the 21st Annual Conference of the Central Women’s Advisory Committee, at the Royal Albert Hall, London, on Wednesday, 21st April, 1948
““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…
TOBACCO CARD: “Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill, MP”
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,…
MUSE OF FIRE
World War I as Seen Through the Lives of the Soldier Poets
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…
TARGET TOKYO: The Story of the Sorge Spy Ring
…jacket with worn edges and a faint price-sticker shadow, else fine. The best account of the World War II Soviet network in Japan, which warned Stalin of German invasion plans….
WINGED STALLION
Fighting and Training with the First Airborne
A very good copy, in an unclipped dust jacket. The author fought with the British 1st Airborne Division throughout World War II in North Africa, Sicily, Italy and in the…
AND I WAS THERE
Pearl Harbor and Midway - Breaking the Secrets
…fine. The contents are fine, with a lengthy book review from Book World, dated 1/19/86, laid-in. CINCPAC intelligence officer to Kimmel and Nimitz. Acted on JN-25 Yamamato and Midway intercepts….
STORY OF A SECRET STATE
A very good copy, without dust jacket of the Book-of-the-Month-Club edition, bound in red cloth. Virtually mint. The book that told the world about the Holocaust, by a Polish underground…
STORY OF A SECRET STATE
…contents are clean and unfoxed, with an intrusive vintage bookplate on the front pastedown. Else fine. The book that told the world about the Holocaust, by a Polish underground fighter…
DECISION BY DEFAULT
Peacetime Conscription and British Defense 1919-39
An examination of Britain’s ambivalence towards peace time conscription and the resultant complications in military planning as World War Two approached. A very good copy, in dust jacket (243 pages,…
BRISTLES AND BRUSHES
A FOOTNOTE TO tHE STORY oF AMERICAN WAR PRODUCTION
A history of brush production during World War II. A very good copy, without dust jacket. Tipped onto the front pastedown is a special presentation sheet from the paintbrush company…
CHURCHILL “AT THE WALDORF” 1946
Original Hotel Promotional Leaflet
…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…