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SOUTH AFRICAN FOOD AND AGRICULTURE IN WORLD WAR II
A virtually mint copy of the First Edition in a price-clipped, mylar-protected dust jacket that has two chips along the upper edge and at the corners; else fine. The contents…
THE MAKING OF THE AFRICAN QUEEN
How I Went to Africa with Bogart, Bacall and Huston and Almost Lost My Mind
This is a very good copy of the First American edition in unclipped dust jacket.
IN SEARCH OF CHURCHILL: A Historian’s Journey
-First English Edition-
Sir Martin Gilbert recounts the story behind his writing Winston Churchill’s official biography; a riveting memoir as well as a stellar defense of Churchill’s life and accomplishments. This is a…
A FLAG FOR THE MATABELE: An Entertainment in African History
An evocative account of the foundation of Rhodesia. A very good copy, spine slightly soiled, in soiled & rubbed dust jacket with chipped corners. (192p., 20 illus.)…
CLASSIC BLACK AFRICAN POEMS
Written by him in French and English and printed on his own press at Paris while he was America's first Minister Plenipotentiary to the Court of France
A virtually mint copy of this handsome fine press edition produced by the Eakins Press, with whom Chartwell Booksellers had a long association. The unclipped dust jacket has very faint…
SALUTE THE SAPPERS
South African Forces: World War II (Volume VIII-Parts I & 2)
…the Battle of Alamein ; part The operations of the South African Engineer Corps in the Northern African and Italian theatres of war from the Battle of El Alamein to…
LAKE VICTORIA TO KHARTOUM
With Rifle and Camera
A very rare Churchill item that Big Game bibliophiles have made almost impossible to find. The author accompanied Churchill on his 1908 “African Journey.” The frontispiece photo here shows Churchill…
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…
THE GOLDEN THIRTEEN
Recollections of the First Black Naval Officers
In 1944, reacting to pressure from civil rights movement , the Navy selected sixteen of some one hundred thousand enlisted African Americans to attend a condensed version of officer’s training…
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…
THE FUSING OF THE PLOUGHSHARE
From East Anglia to Alamein: The Story of a Yeoman at War
…a Territorial Yeomanry Regt. before the war and served as a Gunner in the 7th Armored throughout the North African campaign, surviving the siege of Tobruk and fighting at Alamein….