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A SERVANT OF THE CROWN IN ENGLAND AND NORTH AMERICA, 1756-61
Based on the account books of John Appy, this work chronicles the life of one British functionary whose travels to America during the French Indian War provide a detailed picture…
THE GREAT EARL OF PETERBOROUGH
Biography of Charles Mordaunt (1658-1735), ardent opponent of James II, supporter of William of Orange, commander of British forces in the War of the Spanish Succession. A good ex-library copy,…
A GUNNER ABOARD THE “YANKEE”
From the Diary of Number Five of the After Port Gun
A New York Naval reservist on an auxiliary cruiser in the Cuban blockade squadron. A classic Spanish-American War memoir. Reading copy, without dust jacket. (38 illus. [4 color], appendix.)…
EDUCATION BEFORE VERDUN
First novel in Zweig’s war trilogy; followed by The Case of Sergeant Grischa and The Crowning of a King. Original German title: Erziehung vor Verdun. Roman (1935). Translated from the…
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE, 1820-1910
This biography of Florence Nightingale, which focuses on her service during the Crimean War, draws on various family papers not available to Sir Edward Cook when he composed her official…
THE INVISIBLE GOVERNMENT
…with the CIA at its center, that conducts the clandestine policies of the united states in the cold war. A very good copy, spine tail bumped, in chipped dust jacket….
HERO OF THE EMPIRE
The Boer War, a Daring Escape and the Making of Winston Churchill
Young Winston Churchill and his reputation-making Boer War escape of 1900; a story that has been told many times before, re-retold here by the celebrated author of DESTINY OF THE…