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FRENCH WAR DEBT
-Rare Pamphlet-
“Agreement for the settlement of the war debt of France and Great Britain with an exchange of letters between the Chancellor of the Exchequer [Winston S. Churchill] and the French…
MARY CHURCHILL’S WAR
The Wartime Diaries of Churchill’s Youngest Daughter
Followup to Lady Soames’ 2012 memoir, A DAUGHTER’S TALE, comprising her wartime diaries, 1939-1945. Though self-characterized by Lady Soames herself as “the diary of an ordinary person’s life in war…
WAR GAMES
The Secret World of the Creators, Players, and Policy Makers Rehearsing World War III Today
An account of the war gaming that goes on behind the closed doors of the Pentagon. A very good copy, slight edge wear, in lightly worn dust jacket….
CHURCHILL’S WAR LAB
Code-Breakers, Scientists and the Mavericks Churchill Led to Victory
A unique contribution to Churchill scholarship, Downing mines Churchill’s fascination with new technologies, espionage and the “science of war” in the modern age, arguing that Allied victory was due in…
LAST REFLECTIONS ON A WAR
The last articles and notes of the renowned war correspondent and authority on Southeast Asia, author of the superb “Hell in a Very Small Place,” about Dien Bien Phu. He…
THE UNION-CASTLE AND THE WAR
1914-1919
The privately printed Word War I record of the Union-Castle Line, whose ships provided invaluable service as transports, troopships, hospital ships, and armed merchant convoys, including a complete ‘Roll of…
REFIGHTING THE LAST WAR
Command and Crisis in Korea 1950-1953
Focusing on issues of command, James argues that understanding the Korean War is critical to decision-making in all military conflict. A very good copy, in mylar covered dust jacket, binding…
THE CIVIL WAR
Vol. I: The American Iliad as Told By Those Who Lived It, Vol. II: The Picture Chronicle of the Events, Leaders and Battlefields of the War. Vol. 1 was published…
THE BAD WAR
An Oral History of the Vietnam War
The collection includes 75 personal accounts of the Vietnam war from a wide range of often conflicting perspectives. A very good copy, in mylar covered dust jacket….
THE FORGOTTEN WAR
America in Korea 1950-1953
A masterwork of military history that combines battlefield-level detail with command-level history as well as the domestic and international political dimensions of the war. A very good copy, in mylar…
THE CIVIL WAR
Strange and Fascinating Facts
Inventions, generals’ idiosyncracies and much other interesting trivia. Originally published as Our Incredible Civil War, 1960. A fine copy, in like dust jacket. (249p., illus., biblio.)…
THE “PEOPLE’S WAR” IN FRANCE 1870-1871
The Franco-Prussian War. One in the superb Pall Mall Military Series. A good copy, spine darkened, corners & spine head & tail frayed, rear cover slightly scraped, small brown square…