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WPA POSTER OF WINSTON CHURCHILL & FRANKLIN ROOSEVELT

"United for Victory"

By: Glen Osborn

$1,500.00

A rare, vintage WPA poster of Winston Churchill and Franklin Roosevelt in bust-length, hand-drawn portraits beneath their respective national flags. An image of the Statue of Liberty appears with the headlines (above): “United for Victory – Liberty for All,” and (below): “Democracy Shall Not Die. God Gave Us Courage. America Gave Us Strength.” The artist, […]

FDR

By: Robert D. Graff and Robert Emmett Ginna [Text by Roger Butterfield]

$75.00

This is a very good copy of the First American edition in a clipped dust jacket that is lightly soiled, chipped and worn around the edges, and torn at the lower right front corner; now protected by mylar cover. Contents fine. Based on the American Broadcasting Company’s 1962 TV series.

CHURCHILL AND ROOSEVELT AT WAR

The War They Fought and the Peace They Hoped to Make

By: Keith Sainsbury

1994 | $45.00

Scholarly essays that attempt to revisit and revise the WSC-FDR relationship. This is a virtually mint copy of the First American edition, in dust jacket.

NEHRU

A Political Life

By: Judith M. Brown

2003 | $65.00

A definitive political biography of the first Prime Minister of India after independence in 1947. There is much to reflect on here about India’s attitude to Churchill, which in the end proved a friendship between WSC and Nehru. A thoughtful and balanced biography of another great Harrovian. A very good copy, in dust jacket.

WALKER EVANS: LYRIC DOCUMENTARY

By: Walker Evans (John T. Hill, Editor)

2006 | $85.00

As-new, in publisher’s original shrink-wrap. Evans’ seminal WPA-era images presented for the first time as one comprehensive group, in chronological order.

ENDLESS FRONTIER

Vannevar Bush, Engineer of the American Century

By: G. Pascal Zachary

1997 | $75.00

Director of the Office of Scientific Research & Development and FDR’s chief technology advisor in WWII; launched the Manhattan Project. A very good copy, slight shelf wear, in like dust jacket. (518p., 32 illus., biblio., index.)

THE PATH TO VICTORY

By: Douglas Porch

2004 | $75.00

New, in dust jacket. Brilliantly argued, and with vivid portraits of Churchill. FDR, Rommel, and Mussolini, this original, accessible,and compelling account of a little-known theater emphasizes the importance of the Mediterranean in the ultimate Allied victory in Europe during World War II.

PATRICK J. HURLEY

By: Don Lohbeck

1961 | $30.00

A personal representative of FDR during World War II, Hurley visited the Soviet Union, Afghanistan, the Near East, the Middle East and China, being appointed ambassador to China in 1944. A very good ex-library copy, label on spine, stamps on front free endpaper & title page, pocket & label removed from rear endpapers, bookplate on […]

THE PATH TO VICTORY

The Mediterranean Theater in World War II

By: Douglas Porch

2004 | $75.00

New, in dust jacket. Brilliantly argued, and with vivid portraits of Churchill. FDR, Rommel, and Mussolini, this original, accessible,and compelling account of a little-known theater emphasizes the importance of the Mediterranean in the ultimate Allied victory in Europe during World War II.

DEFENDING THE WEST

The Truman-Churchill Correspondence 1945-1960

By: Churchill, Winston

2005 | $150.00

Thrown together by FDR’s sudden death, Churchill and Truman hit it off like old colleagues despite their vastly different backgrounds. This collection is a must for anyone seriously interested in postwar history. As-new, without dust jacket, as issued.

CONSPIRACY OF ONE

Tyler Kent's Secret Plot against FDR, Churchill, and the Allied War Effort

By: Peter Rand

2013 | $26.95

The saga of an American code clerk’s attempt to undermine FDR before Pearl Harbor by leaking smuggled documents, including top-secret correspondence from Winston Churchill requesting assistance in the war effort. Edward Snowden redux. New in dust jacket.

TEN VINTAGE WORLD WAR II CANDID SNAPSHOT PHOTOGRAPHS OF WINSTON CHURCHILL

Returning from the Atlantic Conference

August 16, 1941 | $425.00

Ten vintage snapshot photographs of Winston Churchill, taken in Iceland on August 16, 1941 as Churchill was returning from the Atlantic Conference. From August 9-12, 1941, he had met secretly with President Roosevelt off Newfoundland aboard the USS Augusta and the British battle cruiser HMS Prince of Wales to discuss the war against the Axis […]

ROOSEVELT AND CHURCHILL

Men of Secrets

By: David Stafford

2000 | $65.00

An excellent study documenting Churchill and FDR’s shared passion for military intelligence and clandestine operations. This is a very good copy of the First American edition in a clipped dust jacket.