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A ROYAL CAVALIER
The Romance of Rupert, Prince Palatine
An impressive career Rupert (1619-1689) fought very capably for Charles I during the English Civil War, and again for Charles II as an admiral in the Anglo-Dutch Wars. He was…
ISLAND IN TIME
A Memoir of Childhood
Carlisle’s girlhood on the island of Oleron, off the west coast of France, occupied by the Germans through the end of the war. A very good copy, in dust jacket…
SPYING FOR AMERICA
The Hidden History of U.S. Intelligence
A history of intelligence from the Revolutionary War to date. A very good copy, in dust jacket with faded spine and light edge wear.
SOLDIERS OF THE OLD ARMY
A memoir of the author’s service at Ft. Sam Houston in the 9th Inf. Regt., Co. A from 1934 to the eve of war in 1940. A fine copy in…
LET ME BE FREE
The Nez Perce Tragedy
An account of the conflict between the US Calvary and Chief Joseph’s Ned Perce Indians following the American Civil war in 1877. As new, in dust jacket with very slight…
TRAITORS: The Anatomy of Treason
Cold War turncoats, including Boyce and Lee (“The Falcon and the Snowman”), Yurchenko, Blunt, Philby, Fuchs, Suvorov, etc. A very good copy, in dust jacket….
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…
ENTER THE DRAGON
China’s Undeclared War Against the U.S. in Korea, 1950-51
A unique volume examining the Korean War in terms of Chinese sources. Based on five years of interviews, Enter the Dragon provides the first thorough account of the Chinese intervention…
THE STATUE ERECTED BY THE STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE IN HONOR OF GENERAL JOHN STARK
A Sketch of its Inception, Erection and Dedication
Book printed to commemorate the building of a monument to General John Stark, a soldier in both the French Indian War and the American Revolution. A very good copy, cover…
LETTERS FROM THE FRONTIERS
McCall served in the Seminole and Mexican-American Wars, and, though this memoir does not cover it, in the Civil War. A facsimile reprint of the 1868 first edition. A good…
SOLITARY STAR
A Biography of Sam Houston
A celebratory biography of Sam Houston, “potential squaw man, soldier in the War of 1812, impoverished school teacher, frontier lawyer, United States Congressman, [and] Governor of Texas … before he…
BLOODS
An Oral History of the Vietnam War by Black Veterans
A compilation of 19 first hand accounts of the Vietnam war by African American servicemen. The first major account of the complex and unique experience of black soldiers, at their…