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WAR, PEACE, AND THE VIET CONG
While not attempting to predict the outcome of the Vietnam War, Pike examines the motives and objectives of the interested parties in an attempt to understand various possibilities for the…
AMERICANS AT WAR
1975-1986, An Era of Violent Peace
Traces the series of violent conflicts in which the US Military involved itself in the decade following the “end” of war. A very good copy in slightly chipped dust jacket,…
ONCE UPON A DISTANT WAR
Young War Correspondents and the Early Vietnam Battles
…the Vietnam War had yet to become the massive tragedy that we know today. According to Prochnau, Saigon was a “tempting oriental backwater” and it is in this setting that…
SEA SOLDIERS IN THE COLD WAR
Amphibious Warfare, 1945-1991
“An operational history of amphibious warfare in the cold war, principally as refined and executed by the two superpowers, their allies, and surrogates.” A fine copy in very good dust…
OVER THE THRESHOLD OF WAR: Personal Experiences of the Great European Conflict
-Signed First American Edition Presentation Copy-
…The contents are clean and crisp. The book surveys the experiences of an American Reserve officer traveling in Europe when the war broke out; he accepted a temporary diplomatic position…
BETWEEN THE LINES: Reflections on War and Peacetime
U.S. Air Force from 1941 to 1973: bomber maintenance, 5 & 13th Air Forces, Pacific, WWII; Korea, 3rd AF; England and Norway, Cold War. A very good copy, in dust…
CHURCHILL GOES TO WAR
Winston's Wartime Journeys
As-new, in an unclipped dust jacket. One of Britain’s top naval historians takes on this rarely explored aspect of Churchill’s wartime endeavors – the practicalities of transporting an aging Prime…
SIGNED OFFICIAL BIOGRAPHY COMPANIONS to VOLUME VI: “The Churchill War Papers” Parts 1, 2 & 3 (Complete Set)
("At the Admiralty"September 1939-May 1940) ("Never Surrender" May 1940-December 1940) & ("The Ever-Widening War" 1941)
A mint First English edition set of Volume VI COMPANION Volumes – “The Churchill War Papers” in unclipped dust jackets, signed in each volume. This was the last set of…
CHURCHILL AT WAR
His "Finest Hour" in Photographs 1940-1945
As-new, in dust jacket. A powerful book of images both familiar and obscure from the archives of the Imperial War Museum, with excellent text and captions by Churchill’s esteemed official…
THE GI WAR
A very good copy in an unclipped dust jacket. A compilation of stories intended to show every facet of enlisted life during the war by former Stars and Stripes reporter…
THE OUTPOST WAR
U.S. Marines in Korea, Volume 1: 1952
Written by a combat veteran of the Korean War, this volume examines the atypical and largely defensive role played by the U.S. Marine Corps during the period of stalemate beginning…
CHURCHILL’S WAR LAB
Code-Breakers, Scientists and the Mavericks Churchill Led to Victory
A unique contribution to Churchill scholarship, Downing mines Churchill’s fascination with new technologies, espionage and the “science of war” in the modern age, arguing that Allied victory was due in…