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THE CIVIL WAR
Strange and Fascinating Facts
Inventions, generals’ idiosyncracies and much other interesting trivia. Originally published as Our Incredible Civil War, 1960. A fine copy, in like dust jacket. (249p., illus., biblio.)…
KOREA: The Untold Story of the War
“The pentagon papers of the Korean War.” Goulden takes full advantage of the Freedom of Information Act in order to relate a narrative of this tragic and unconstitutional “police action”…
THE “PEOPLE’S WAR” IN FRANCE 1870-1871
The Franco-Prussian War. One in the superb Pall Mall Military Series. A good copy, spine darkened, corners & spine head & tail frayed, rear cover slightly scraped, small brown square…
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…
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…
MY EARLY LIFE: A Roving Commission
-First English Edition in Dust Jacket-
…with only nominal fading to the fade-prone spine. The binding is the Second State of the First Printing (per Cohen), with the variant five-line title block on the cover and…
TYPED BIRTHDAY THANK-YOU NOTE SIGNED BY WINSTON CHURCHILL
TO JOHN "JOCK" COLVILLE
A typed thank-you note on 28 Hyde Park Gate notepaper, dated “3 December, 1958,” three days days after Churchill’s 84th Birthday, to John Colville, Churchill’s Private Secretary during World War…
THE MEMOIRS OF LORD CHANDOS
The memoirs of Churchill’s Minister of State in charge of coordinating military and political affairs in the Middle East during World War II. This is a Second Impression copy of…
THUNDER RUN
The Armored Strike to Capture Baghdad
…from the Second Brigade is a riveting firsthand account of how a single armored brigade was able to capture an Arab capital defended by one of the world’s largest armies….
THE CHEQUERED PAST
Sports Car Racing & Rallying in Canada 1951-1991
An encyclopedic guide to Canadian car racing, which underwent critical changes in the second half of the twentieth century to become a player on the world stage.
A HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH-SPEAKING PEOPLES
-Presentation Set Signed in All Four Volumes-
…Strike of 1926, and was a shipowner, whose vessels served in Allied operations throughout World War II as hospital, supply and troop ships. The Churchills notably stayed at his lakeside…
TO A VICTORIOUS CONCLUSION! The Prime Minister’s Appeal to the Nation
-Rare World War I Recruitment Pamphlet-
A variant first printing of this rare World War I-vintage stapled paper pamphlet containing, “Speeches delivered at the Guildhall, London, on September 4th, 1914, by Mr. Asquith, Mr. Bonar Law,…