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JAPAN’S WAR
The Great Pacific Conflict, 1853-1952
Japan’s forced emergence from isolation, its industrialization, the Sino-Japanese War, the Russo-Japanese War, World War II and its aftermath. A very good copy, upper edge of front cover dented, in…
WAR AND ADMINISTRATION: The Significance of the Crimean War for the British Army
Reforms in the aftermath of one of the worst managed wars in history. A very good copy, in slightly rubbed dust jacket. (174p., 2 maps, 2 Tables of Organization, notes,…
THE STORY OF THE MALAKAND FIELD FORCE
-Second Colonial Library Edition-
This is a beautiful copy of the Second Colonial Library edition, bound in a vivid blue-green cloth, fascinatingly different from the standard Colonial Library gray-green cloth. The Second Colonial Library…
IAN HAMILTON’S MARCH
-Second Printing of the First English Edition-
A very good copy of the Second Printing of the First English edition, which the publisher designated as a “Second Edition” but which bibliographer Ronald Cohen argues is really more…
HAPPY DISPATCHES: Journalistic pieces from Banjo Paterson’s days as a war correspondent
The beloved Australian writer, reporting for the Sydney Morning Herald on the Boer War, China, London, World War I, British generals, Churchill, Kipling, etc. Fine writing. Originally published in 1934….
SEA LANES IN WAR TIME: The American Experience, 1775-1942
Excellent analysis by noted author; may still be the best on the subject. The first half is chronological through the Civil War; second half is topical through the summer of…
U.S. ARMY IN THE KOREAN WAR
Truce Tent and Fighting Front
The second of five volumes to be published on the United States and the Korean War, Truce and Tent Fighting covers the seemingly unending negotiations during the last two years…
LIFE: “The War Memoirs of Winston Churchill” (Volume One: “The Gathering Storm” Part II)
-Magazine Article-
The second installment of Winston Churchill’s WAR MEMOIRS in serialization; more than 20 pages, profuse with black & white and color illustrations. [Pages 48-55, 57-78…80] This is an original copy…
TOBACCO CARD: “Winston L.S. Churchill, War Correspondent”
A very early Boer War-era tobacco card featuring Great Britain’s highest paid war reporter of his time. Manufactured in 1901 for Ogden’s Tab Cigarettes, the card measures 2 1/4 x…
SPIES AND THE NEXT WAR
Devices, episodes, techniques and World War I incidents. A good copy, rear cover scuffed, rear hinge chipped, spine head & tail bumped, without dust jacket….
POST-WAR ORIGINAL PRESS PHOTOGRAPH RELATING TO WINSTON CHURCHILL
"Churchill's Slippers"
…scrollwork in gold wire and with his initials in 2 1/4 gold letters on the toes. They cost $14 a pair. The first pair were ordered during the war, and…
FORGOTTEN WAR, FORGIVEN GUILT
The U.S. 13th Air Force in the Pacific in World War II, by a flying boat pilot, including accounts a Japanese atrocities. A fine copy, miniscule wear to corners, in…