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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…
MEMORIES AND ADVENTURES
…adventures following in the footsteps of his father and grandfather as a war correspondent. This is a very good First English edition copy, in an unclipped dust jacket. Virtually mint….
SHIP OF GHOSTS
The Story of the USS Houston, FDR's Legendary Lost Cruiser, and the Epic Saga of her Survivors
A neglected story of the war, well-told. As-new, in dust jacket.
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…
THE REASON WHY
The feud between Lucan and Cardigan and the charge of the Light Brigade at Balaclava in the Crimean War; due to an ambiguous order, 488 out of 673 men were…
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,…
THE FIRST TEAM
Pacific Naval Air Combat From Pearl Harbor to Midway
Comprehensive operational history of WWII carrier based air war-fare. A very good copy, spine ends and corners very slightly bumped, dust jacket creased and chipped at edges.
PIGBOAT 39
An American Sub Goes to War
The service of an old U.S. S-class submarine in the Pacific from Pearl Harbor until she grounded in August, 1942, including five war patrols. By the wife of one of…
THE LONG CAMPAIGN
The History of the 15th Fighter Group in World War II
The 15th saw combat at Pearl Harbor, scoring the first U.S. air-to-air victories of the war, and fought throughout the Pacific to the end. An uncommon history, by the unit’s…
UNA VERSIONE AUSTRIACA DI VITTORIO VENETO DIVULGATA IN FRANCIA
The Italian victory at the Battle of Vittorio Veneto, October 24 to November 3, 1918, helped precipitate the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and ended the war on that front….
FACING THE THREAT OF NUCLEAR WEAPONS
“With an Open Letter on the Danger of Thermonuclear War from Andrei Sakharov.” By an eminent physicist. A good copy, some edge wear….