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SOLDIERS AND STATESMEN 1914-1918
-Slipcased First American Edition in Dust Jackets-
War memoirs by the first British Army soldier to rise from private to field marshal; COS to Haig,1915-1916; Chief of the Imperial General Staff, 1917-191 This is an astonishingly beautiful…
THE SOMME
The authors have examined the entire public archive covering the Somme campaign in 1916 and painstakingly reconstruct the day-by-day course of the war. The result is the most precise and…
FROM THE DANUBE TO THE YALU
…communism. According to the front cover he describes the Korean conflict as “a war we might have won.” A very good copy, in a mylar covered, slightly soiled, dust jacket….
STILL LIFE
Hollywood’s vision of post-war American life, through the promotional color film stills made on and around movie sets from the 1940s to the 1970s. This is a very good copy,…
IN THE BALANCE
Speeches 1949 & 1950
The third volume of collected post-war speeches (1949-1950), covering Churchill’s years as leader of the opposition in Parliament, discoursing on NATO, Socialism in Britain and the Korean conflict. This is…
TO DWELL IN PEACE
An Autobiography
One of America’s great anti-war activists, a celebrity of the Sixties and beyond, tells his own story. A reading from this book took place here at Chartwell Booksellers in April…
YOUNG WINSTON’S WARS
-First English Book Club Edition-
A marvelous collection that reprints Churchill’s early despatches as a young war correspondent writing from India, the Sudan and South Africa. This is a very good copy of the First…
CONSPIRACY OF ONE
Tyler Kent's Secret Plot against FDR, Churchill, and the Allied War Effort
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….
CHURCHILL IN HIS TIME
A STUDY IN A REPUTATION
…purport to explain Churchill’s plummet in popularity at home during the war and after. Published in the U.S. under the title: CHURCHILL IN POWER. Dismissed by the Times Literary Supplement…
CHURCHILL AS WARLORD
A stylish piece of writing that adds up Churchill’s character pro and con, tracing the background that made him a supreme war leader. Scarce. This is a very good First…
WITH THE CONTRAS
A Reporter int the Wilds of Nicaragua
A revealing account, by the first North American journalists to make a successful journey into the mountains of Nicaragua, of the “dirty little war being fought in Nicaragua and funded…
MR. CHURCHILL: A PORTRAIT
A best-selller in its day, useful and well-written, if less than scholarly. This is an interesting curiosity, a very good English edition copy specifically produced for the end of war…