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ABOVE THE BATTLE
War-Making in America From Appomattox to Versailles
A well-regarded work on American soldiers’ and civilians’ perceptions of war from 1865-1918. A very good copy, slight edge wear, in somewhat soiled dust jacket with light edge wear (260…
WITH THE BULGARIAN STAFF
By a British M.P., Balkan Committee, at the front in the First Balkan War against the Turks, 1912-13. A prime source. A very good copy, discreet library stamp on front…
FROM THE VOLTURNO TO THE WINTER LINE (6 OCTOBER-15 NOVEMBER 1943)
This is a very good copy, with the edges of the paperback cover worn and the rear hinge weak. The interior pages are lightly browned, a former owner’s stamp appears…
MEMOIR OF THE BOBOTES
By the novelist and Red Cross stretcher bearer in the Balkan War, 1912-13. A very good copy, slight edge wear, in dust jacket with light wear to corners….
A SERVANT OF THE CROWN IN ENGLAND AND NORTH AMERICA, 1756-61
Based on the account books of John Appy, this work chronicles the life of one British functionary whose travels to America during the French Indian War provide a detailed picture…
THE GREAT EARL OF PETERBOROUGH
Biography of Charles Mordaunt (1658-1735), ardent opponent of James II, supporter of William of Orange, commander of British forces in the War of the Spanish Succession. A good ex-library copy,…
A GUNNER ABOARD THE “YANKEE”
From the Diary of Number Five of the After Port Gun
A New York Naval reservist on an auxiliary cruiser in the Cuban blockade squadron. A classic Spanish-American War memoir. Reading copy, without dust jacket. (38 illus. [4 color], appendix.)…
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…
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE, 1820-1910
This biography of Florence Nightingale, which focuses on her service during the Crimean War, draws on various family papers not available to Sir Edward Cook when he composed her official…
THE INVISIBLE GOVERNMENT
…with the CIA at its center, that conducts the clandestine policies of the united states in the cold war. A very good copy, spine tail bumped, in chipped dust jacket….
THE KREMLIN LETTERS
Stalin’s Wartime Correspondence with Churchill and Roosevelt
More than 600 messages exchanged over the course of the war, here contextualized and analyzed by historians Reynolds and Pechatnov using much newly-declassified information from British, American and Russian archives….