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TOBACCO CARD: “Maj. Gen. Ian Hamilton”
A very early Boer War-era tobacco card featuring a bust-length portrait photograph of Churchill’s favorite Boer War colleague. The verso is blank. The card is in very good condition.
THE COMPLETE NEW ZEALAND DISTINGUISHED CONDUCT MEDAL
All 528 recipients to date, Boer War through Korean War. The 1978 first edition was a limited private edition. A very good copy, corners slightly bumped, very limited occassional faint…
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…
CHURCHILL’S COOKBOOK
As-new, the first reissue ever of the renowned RECIPES FROM NO. 10, written by the Churchill family’s revered chef during the war and after, Georgina Landemare, who gave up a…
TOBACCO CARD: “Earl Roberts, Commander-in-Chief of the British Army”
A very early Boer War-era tobacco card featuring a bust-length portrait photograph of General Earl Roberts, “Commander-in-Chief of the British Army” during the Boer War. The verso is blank. The…
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…
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…
BANNERS IN THE AIR
The Eighth Ohio Volunteers and the Spanish-American War
A Civil War veteran and commander of the only regiment from Ohio to go to Cuba, Curtis V. Hard has written a personal and compelling account of the last days…
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)….
MERCHANTS OF TREASON: America’s Secrets for Sale
A classically paranoid late cold war text claiming to be “the first comprehensive analysis of how and why we are losing so badly in the back-alley war of counter espionage.”…
THE LIFE AND WARS OF GIDEON J. PILLOW
This is a very good copy of the First American edition in an unclipped dust jacket. Pillow served with distinction in the Mexican War. During the Civil War he commanded…
IN RETROSPECT
The Tragedy and Lessons of Vietnam
Robert McNamara’s reflections on a war that he came to reject and later regret. Drawn from documents only recently declassified and his experience as the Secretary of Defense for two…