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“IF THE INVADER COMES” & “BEATING THE INVADER”
-Rare Pair of British Wartime Government Leaflets-
Two British World War II leaflets were distributed to the citizenry of the British Isles in anticipation of a Nazi invasion; IF THE INVASION COMES in June 1940 and BEATING…
CHURCHILL: THE END OF GLORY
A Political Biography
An antagonistic revisionist history, headline-making in it’s day, authored by a very good writer with very muddled ideas about Winston Churchill and World War II. This is a very good…
LLOYD GEORGE
War Leader
The fourth volume of Grigg’s definitive biography, covering Lloyd George’s World War I Prime Ministership. This is a very good copy of the First English edition, in an unclipped dust…
THE EPIC OF JUTLAND
-From the Library of Sir Winston Churchill-
…have been MY EARLY LIFE, then just-published. Obviously Aunt Leonie reciprocated almost immediately with this copy of her son’s latest work about the epic naval battle of World War I….
CHURCHILL: The End of Glory
Headline-making revisionist history in it’s day, authored by a very good writer with very muddled ideas about Winston Churchill and World War II. This is a very good copy of…
SAVROLA
-"Sevenpenny Library" Edition in the Rare Dust Jacket-
A clothbound paperback-equivalent of the World War I-era, this small and rather fragile “Cheap” edition did not age well and its striking dust jacket rarely survived and is virtually never…
CHURCHILL WARRIOR
How a Military Life Guided Winston's Finest Hours
…sea, and air, and how he used that knowledge to effectively lead as both Minster of Defense and Prime Minster during World War II, in the face of staggering odds….
THEODORE ROOSEVELT: AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY
-Signed First American Edition-
…of my ‘America and World War’ and charge to me. T. Roosevelt.” There is a spot of tape shadow on the verso of the letter and on the half-title as…
LITERARY TREASURES OF 1926
…Winston Churchill’s essay about the French World War I Generals Foch and Cemenceau (pages 225-227), first published earlier that year in Cosmopolitan Magazine. A very good copy, worn along the…
DISASTER IN KOREA
The Chinese Confront MacArthur
On November 24th, 1950 General MacArthur ordered an attack on the Yalu River running between China and North Korea with the intention of ending the Korean War. This volume, the…
STEMMING THE TIDE
-First American Edition-
The fourth volume of Churchill’s collected post-war speeches (February 7, 1951 – December 11, 1952), encompassing Churchill’s return as Prime Minister amidst battles with Labour over rationing and all manifestations…
CHURCHILL WANTED DEAD OR ALIVE
Winston Churchill’s granddaughter brilliantly reconstructs Churchill’s experiences as a war correspondent during the Boer War in South Africa, including his infamous escape from a Boer prison, an escape that received…