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TEN SECONDS FROM NOW
A Broadcaster's Story
The memoirs of a BBC broadcaster, including World War II. A very good copy, corners slightly worn, in dust jacket with slightly chipped corners….
MALTA AIRMEN
New Zealanders in the defense of Malta, World War II, including Malta’s Air Officer Commanding. From the New Zealand in the Second World War Official History series. A very good…
ACTION THIS DAY
Working with Churchill
A Churchill portrait through the excerpted memoirs and diaries of his private secretaries (and one cabinet secretary); a truly intimate and prismatic firsthand view. This is a very good copy…
HAPPY DISPATCHES: Journalistic pieces from Banjo Paterson’s days as a war correspondent
The beloved Australian writer, reporting for the Sydney Morning Herald on the Boer War, China, London, World War I, British generals, Churchill, Kipling, etc. Fine writing. Originally published in 1934….
IAN HAMILTON’S MARCH
-Second Printing of the First English Edition-
A very good copy of the Second Printing of the First English edition, which the publisher designated as a “Second Edition” but which bibliographer Ronald Cohen argues is really more…
THE STORY OF THE MALAKAND FIELD FORCE
-Second Colonial Library Edition-
This is a beautiful copy of the Second Colonial Library edition, bound in a vivid blue-green cloth, fascinatingly different from the standard Colonial Library gray-green cloth. The Second Colonial Library…
U.S. ARMY IN THE KOREAN WAR
Truce Tent and Fighting Front
The second of five volumes to be published on the United States and the Korean War, Truce and Tent Fighting covers the seemingly unending negotiations during the last two years…
SEA LANES IN WAR TIME: The American Experience, 1775-1942
Excellent analysis by noted author; may still be the best on the subject. The first half is chronological through the Civil War; second half is topical through the summer of…
TOBACCO CARD: “Winston L.S. Churchill, War Correspondent”
A very early Boer War-era tobacco card featuring Great Britain’s highest paid war reporter of his time. Manufactured in 1901 for Ogden’s Tab Cigarettes, the card measures 2 1/4 x…
SABOTAGE AT BLACK TOM: Imperial Germany’s Secret War in America 1914-1917
A little known campaign of sabotage throughout World War I comprised of over 200 actions aimed at stopping the flow of American arms to France and Britain, including blowing up…
MIDDLE EAST WAR PROJECTS
OF JOHNSON, DRAKE & PIPER, INC. FOR THE CORPS OF ENGINEERS, 1942-1943
Privately printed by Johnson, Drake & Piper documenting their engineering and construction projects in the Middle East for the U.S. Army during World War II, including Egypt, the Sudan, the…
THE PACIFIC WAR REMEMBERED
An Oral History Collection
First hand accounts of U.S. Navy and Marine Corps actions (sea, air and amphibious) in World War II by 30 participants. A fine copy, corners very slightly worn, slight smudge…