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LONG DAY’S JOURNEY INTO WAR
December 7, 1941
A very good copy, in dust jacket, virtually mint. Detailed analysis and reconstruction of the events that led up to Pearl Harbor and beyond….
MY AMERICAN JOURNEY
The autobiography of Colin L. Powell, written with Joseph E. Persico. A fine copy in slightly shelf worn and smudged dust jacket (643 pages, index)….
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…
THE PASSIONATE JOURNEY
-First American Edition-
Avery good copy of the First American edition, in an unclipped shelfworn dust jacket with significant creasing and edge-chipping. The contents are fine, with tanning to the endpapers.
AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL: A Photographic Journey, Coast to Coast–And Beyond
-First American Edition-
A very good copy of the First American edition, in an unclipped dust jacket.
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…
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….
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…
WITH ROMMEL IN THE DESERT
-First English Edition-
A very good copy, without dust jacket. Virtually mint, with a discreet bookseller plate on the front pastedown. By Rommel’s South African-born aide-de-camp….