A very early tobacco card featuring Great Britain’s highest paid war reporter of his time, manufactured for Ogden’s Guinea Gold Cigarettes’s “Boer War” series of 1900-1901. The card measures 2…
…book (with M[a]cgowan’s name misspelled on the dust jacket) is included here, preserved in a blue quarter-leather solander (stamped: THE SECOND WORLD WAR / Vol. III on the spine). Winston…
Poetry and literature from both World Wars, Spanish Civil War, Vietnam. Edited by the author of “The Great War and Modern Memory.” A near fine copy, illegible signature on half-title…
The role played by mass print media and especially field correspondents during the Spanish American war was adventurous, celebrated, dangerous and extremely ambiguous. Brown examines the complex relationship between media…
…marching at the head of his War Cabinet. The cartoon ran in the May 14, 1940 edition of The Evening Standard. This letter was acquired from the estate of Sir…
Traces the political and social origins of the Third International which arose during the First World War in reaction to the labor and socialist parties of the Second International ’s…
…lessons of that war should be applied today in Southeast Asia; and why future wars must be fought for clear and limited objectives.” [from dust jacket] A very good copy,…
In an attempt to confront a war that escapes the dichotomous categories of good and bad, the editors have brought together a range of writing and photographic evidence that reveals…
Blue and grey-colored World War I vintage drawing of five playing cards depicting “WC” (Winston Churchill, First Lord of the Admiralty), “JJ” (John Jellicoe, Admiral of the Fleet), “K of…
This is a very good set in the very rare dust jackets of Macmillan’s wartime reprint of Churchill’s WORLD CRISIS in three individual volumes. Volume II is a Second Impression….
The beloved Australian writer, reporting for the Sydney Morning Herald on the Boer War, China, London, World War I, British generals, Churchill, Kipling, etc. Fine writing. Originally published in 1934….
“Letter From the Secretary of War, Transmitting a Report of the Board of Officers on Claims for Property Taken for Military Purposes Within the United States During the War With…