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THE HIGH ROAD TO TOKYO BAY
The AAF in the Asiatic-Pacific Theater
One of the “U.S. Army Air Forces in World War II” commemerative series. A very good copy (34p., 17 illus., 4 maps, biblio)….
MEDAL OF HONOR
Profiles of America's Military Heroes from the Civil War to the Present
Provides the biographies of eleven recipients, from all branches of the military, in the Civil War, both World Wars, Korea and Vietnam. A very good copy, spine head & tail…
CHURCHILL’S GRAND ALLIANCE
A Provocative Reassessment of the “Special Relationship” Between England and the U.S. from 1940-1957
Headline-making revisionist history by a very good writer whose opinions about Churchill and World War II remain very muddled. This is a very good copy of the First American edition,…
PATRICK J. HURLEY
…A personal representative of FDR during World War II, Hurley visited the Soviet Union, Afghanistan, the Near East, the Middle East and China, being appointed ambassador to China in 1944….
TOBACCO CARD: “Mr. Winston Churchill”
A very early Boer War-era tobacco card featuring Great Britain’s Boer War hero, manufactured for The American Tobacco Co.’s “Boer War Series B” of 1901. The card measures 2 1/4…
THREAD OF VICTORY
…endpaper. There is a hint of dampstaining to the upper corner fore-edges only, else fine. The conversion and conservation of textiles, clothing and leather for the world’s biggest war program….
THEY NEVER SURRENDERED
A True Story of Resistance in World War II
Aa near fine copy of a very scarce first-hand account of the fierce Philippine resistance against the Japanese in World War II, in a dust jacket with faint wear to…
BOSWORTH FIELD: From Medieval to Tudor England
The final, decisive battle of the Wars of the Roses, 1485. From The Crossroads of World History Series. A near fine copy, spine head & tail lightly worn, in slightly…
MUSE OF FIRE (Signed First Edition)
World War I as Seen Through the Lives of the Soldier Poets
By one of our favorite authors, an extraordinarily wide-ranging view of Britain’s trench soldier poets during World War I and the ways in which these different classes of men processed…
LITERARY TREASURES OF 1926
…Winston Churchill’s essay about the French World War I Generals Foch and Cemenceau (pages 225-227), first published earlier that year in Cosmopolitan Magazine. A very good copy, worn along the…
MOSCOW TO STALINGRAD: Decision in the East
A very good copy, in an unclipped dust jacket. Reprint of a volume in the Army Green Series World War II history….
CHURCHILL: THE END OF GLORY
A Political Biography
An antagonistic revisionist history, headline-making in it’s day, authored by a very good writer with very muddled ideas about Winston Churchill and World War II. This is a very good…