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THE CORRESPONDENTS’ WAR
Journalists in the Spanish-American War
The role played by mass print media and especially field correspondents during the Spanish American war was adventurous, celebrated, dangerous and extremely ambiguous. Brown examines the complex relationship between media…
PROPERTY TAKEN DURING THE WAR WITH SPAIN
“Letter From the Secretary of War, Transmitting a Report of the Board of Officers on Claims for Property Taken for Military Purposes Within the United States During the War With…
BETWEEN-THE-WARS VINTAGE PROMOTIONAL POSTCARD of Winston Churchill
…message: “Jan. 4th 1933. Six of the World’s greatest stories re-told by Winston Churchill begin next Sunday Jan. 8th in the News of the World. – ‘Uncle Tom’s Cabin,’ ‘Count…
LAMIA
“The memoirs of a French Underground fighter who became de Gaulle’s Chief of Intelligence in Washington and whose dramatic expose of Soviet infiltration in the French government caused reverberations at…
ADVENTURES IN THE REVOLUTION AND UNDER THE CONSULATE
The memoirs of Alexandre Moreau De Jonnes who was called up for the national guard at the age of 13 during France’s short lived constitutional monarchy. The author became acquainted…
A TEXAS RANGER
Jennings served from 1874 to 1878 in Capt. McNelly’s Company. One of the better memoirs of Texas Ranger service, first published in 1899 and reprinted many times. A good copy,…
FLYING FOR FRANCE
With the American Escadrille at Verdun
This is a very good copy of the Third Printing without dust jacket. The pages are age-toned; contents fine. The cloth is mildly faded, particularly the spine; else fine. Memoirs…
ALIVE AT THE VILLAGE VANGUARD
My Life In and Out of Jazz Time
One of the most entertainingly straightforward jazz memoirs ever written, by the late-legendary owner of the Village Vanguard. (Signed copies are available. See Item # 209948.)
ADVENTURES ASHORE AND AFLOAT
-First English Edition in Dust Jacket-
The memoirs of Churchill’s close colleague, the Royal Navy’s Admiral of the Fleet, published just as Churchill was about to return as First Lord of the Admiralty. This is a…
AFTERNOON LIGHT
Some Memories of Men and Events
This is a surface-dampstained First English edition copy, in dust jacket, of the memoirs of Australia’s gnarly PM. The contents are fine.
ALIVE AT THE VILLAGE VANGUARD: My Life In and Out of Jazz Time
-Signed by Lorraine Gordon-
One of the most entertainingly straightforward jazz memoirs ever written, by the late-legendary owner of the Village Vanguard. This mint First Edition copy is signed by Lorraine Gordon and Barry…
CHINDWIN TO CRICCIETH: The Life of Godfrey Drage
Godfrey Drage served principally in Burma prior to World War I. In World War I he served in all four theaters, including Gallipoli. Uncommon. Most of the wartime episodes are…