…military historian Geral d Astor comes the first account of how the airplane transformed the U.S. Navy and paved the way to victory in the Pacific in World War II….
““There can be no hope for the world unless the peoples of Europe unite together to preserve their freedom, their culture and their civilisation… I have always tried to keep…
A crackling historical novel of World War II that tracks President Roosevelt’s trusted emissary, Harry Hopkins, as he arrives in London to meet and assess the new British Prime Minister,…
…him in 1947. The son reviews for his father all that has happened to the world since Randolph died in 1895 — never revealing the role that he himself played…
…blue pen on the front free endpaper; contents fine. An advertisement for the book clipped from the Washington Post Book World, Oct. 27, 1968, is laid in at the back….
Churchill’s uncanny prescience about world events is the subject of Humes’s latest study. New, in dust jacket.
…is a unique, full-length Churchill biography about the world that Winston Churchill created for himself away from politics. Written by Barry Singer, the founder and longtime proprietor of Chartwell Booksellers,…
…is a unique, full-length Churchill biography about the world that Winston Churchill created for himself away from politics. Written by Barry Singer, the founder and longtime proprietor of Chartwell Booksellers,…
British TV presenter Weaver, who has earned three Guinness World Records, guides readers on a journey across five continents in some of the most coveted vehicles. His take on living…
…of “OUR LIVING WORLD: A Natural History,” by Rev. J.G. Wood, Volume II Birds 1885. Illustrated with 26 Wood Engravings by Alan James Robinson and a Newly Designed Alphabet by…
Exploits of the U-Boat-hunting “Q Ships” of World War I. These well-disguised, commonplace boats of every description were packed with hidden deadly weapons and dispatched to hunt German U-Boats. This…
…January 1965.” Collected tributes by world leaders and diplomats, apparently only sold by the U.N. directly, and today quite rare. This copy exhbits some very light shelf wear, else fine….