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SELECTED WORKS OF MAO TSE-TUNG
Volume II
The War against Japan, role of party in national war, etc. A very good copy, covers slightly soiled….
THE WOUND WITHIN
America in the Vietnam Years, 1945-1974
Written on the premise that the Vietnam War was “not an idiosyncracy [but] rooted in history, habit and hauteur” this account regards the conflict in terms of American post war…
KOREA AND THE FALL OF MACARTHUR
A Precis in Limited War
Beginning with the Potsdam conference and following the course of the war through 1951, Higgins examines the specific nature of a war that was both limited in scope and popularity…
UNDER FIRE
The Story of American War Correspondents
The story of American war correspondents from the Revolution through the Persian Gulf war. A near fine copy in very good dust jacket (160 pages, numerous photographs, index)….
FROM PRESIDENT TO PRISON
A Polish novelist, journalist, explorer and professor, Ossendowski was a chemist cooperating with the Russian army during the Russo-Japanese War. After the 1905 revolution he was briefly president of the…
THIRD ANNUAL REPORT OF THE STATE HISTORIAN OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, 1897
…and the cloth cover is lightly soiled; else fine. Contents are remarkably clean and unfoxed. Contains lengthy Colonial muster rolls and articles on Civil War battles involving New York regiments….
PEARL HARBOR
A good overview of the aims, planning and execution of the attack, by a prominent historian of the Pacific war. A very good copy, spine head & tail slightly bumped,…
GARBO
The Spy who Save D-Day
…dust jacket. An account of the wartime activities of the first major double agent in the history of espionage, Juan Pujol, with an introduction on British intelligence during the war….
THE DUKE OF CORNWALL’S OWN RIFLES: A Regimental History of the Forty-Third Regiment, Active Militia of Canada
-Signed and Inscribed Presentation Copy-
…a faint damp-spot on front cover. Contents fine and include period advertisements from Ottawa-area businesses. The Forty-Third Regiment served in the Fenian Raids, the Northwest Rebellion and the Boer War….
WINSTON CHURCHILL
An Informal Study of Greatness
…many people who knew Churchill as far back as the Boer War. There is no index unfortunately but the book is an unexpected gem nonetheless. The contents here are fine….
TRUXTUN OF THE CONSTELLATION
The Life of Commodore Thomas Truxtun, U.S. Navy 1755-1822
The first full length biography pf Truxtun, who was privateersman in the Revolution and fought in the Quasi-War with France. Facsimile reprint of the 1956 first edition. A near fine…
COMMON DESTINY
Dictatorship, Foreign Policy, and War in Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany
Comparing the structure and dynamics in the two countries. Also has a fair amount on the Italian Army at war, 1940-43. A very good copy, without dust jacket (262p., notes,…