Typed paper caption on verso, dated April 13, 1948, reads: “Mrs. Franklin Roosevelt shakes hands with Winston Churchill as she left the Hyde Park Gate, London, home of Britain’s wartime…
…Oliver are greeted by their son, Randolph. Britain’s wartime Prime Minister will board President Truman’s special train for Fulton, MO. to give an address on foreign policy there Mar. 5.”…
Otherwise identical to the 1956 First Edition, these were printed for the Civil War Book Club and signed by both authors on a second half-title page. One of the South’s…
A very early Boer War-era tobacco card featuring Great Britain’s highest paid war reporter of his time. The card measures 2 1/4 x 1 3/8 inches and is in very…
…was taken from Churchill’s later Abridged Edition of THE RIVER WAR. The book is in virtually mint condition. An especially attractive alternative to more common reprintings of THE RIVER WAR….
In an attempt to confront a war that escapes the dichotomous categories of good and bad, the editors have brought together a range of writing and photographic evidence that reveals…
…lessons of that war should be applied today in Southeast Asia; and why future wars must be fought for clear and limited objectives.” [from dust jacket] A very good copy,…
“Letter From the Secretary of War, Transmitting a Report of the Board of Officers on Claims for Property Taken for Military Purposes Within the United States During the War With…
The role played by mass print media and especially field correspondents during the Spanish American war was adventurous, celebrated, dangerous and extremely ambiguous. Brown examines the complex relationship between media…
…message: “Jan. 4th 1933. Six of the World’s greatest stories re-told by Winston Churchill begin next Sunday Jan. 8th in the News of the World. – ‘Uncle Tom’s Cabin,’ ‘Count…
Twenty-seven U.S. aces from all services tell their stories, from World War I through Vietnam (though most are from World War II), by the legendary Marine Corps ace. As new,…
Godfrey Drage served principally in Burma prior to World War I. In World War I he served in all four theaters, including Gallipoli. Uncommon. Most of the wartime episodes are…