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KOREA AND THE FALL OF MACARTHUR
A Precis in Limited War
Beginning with the Potsdam conference and following the course of the war through 1951, Higgins examines the specific nature of a war that was both limited in scope and popularity…
THE WOUND WITHIN
America in the Vietnam Years, 1945-1974
Written on the premise that the Vietnam War was “not an idiosyncracy [but] rooted in history, habit and hauteur” this account regards the conflict in terms of American post war…
AMERICAN COMMISSAR
Author was a Hungarian communist in the U.S.; served as commissar and historian of an International Brigade in the Spanish Civil War; disillusioned, he quit the Party and returned to…
IN RETROSPECT
The Tragedy and Lessons of Vietnam
Robert McNamara’s reflections on a war that he came to reject and later regret. Drawn from documents only recently declassified and his experience as the Secretary of Defense for two…
THE LIFE AND WARS OF GIDEON J. PILLOW
This is a very good copy of the First American edition in an unclipped dust jacket. Pillow served with distinction in the Mexican War. During the Civil War he commanded…
MERCHANTS OF TREASON: America’s Secrets for Sale
A classically paranoid late cold war text claiming to be “the first comprehensive analysis of how and why we are losing so badly in the back-alley war of counter espionage.”…
BANNERS IN THE AIR
The Eighth Ohio Volunteers and the Spanish-American War
A Civil War veteran and commander of the only regiment from Ohio to go to Cuba, Curtis V. Hard has written a personal and compelling account of the last days…
FROM PRESIDENT TO PRISON
A Polish novelist, journalist, explorer and professor, Ossendowski was a chemist cooperating with the Russian army during the Russo-Japanese War. After the 1905 revolution he was briefly president of the…
THIRD ANNUAL REPORT OF THE STATE HISTORIAN OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, 1897
…and the cloth cover is lightly soiled; else fine. Contents are remarkably clean and unfoxed. Contains lengthy Colonial muster rolls and articles on Civil War battles involving New York regiments….
PEARL HARBOR
A good overview of the aims, planning and execution of the attack, by a prominent historian of the Pacific war. A very good copy, spine head & tail slightly bumped,…
GARBO
The Spy who Save D-Day
…dust jacket. An account of the wartime activities of the first major double agent in the history of espionage, Juan Pujol, with an introduction on British intelligence during the war….
THE DUKE OF CORNWALL’S OWN RIFLES: A Regimental History of the Forty-Third Regiment, Active Militia of Canada
-Signed and Inscribed Presentation Copy-
…a faint damp-spot on front cover. Contents fine and include period advertisements from Ottawa-area businesses. The Forty-Third Regiment served in the Fenian Raids, the Northwest Rebellion and the Boer War….