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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…
TOBACCO CARD: “Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill, MP”
World War I-era tobacco card, Number 3 of 50 manufactured for Scissors Cigarettes’ “Britain’s Defenders” series f 1915.,br> Issued in 1915, after Churchill’s resignation as First Lord of the Admiralty,…
“Q” BOAT ADVENTURES
The Exploits of the Famous Mystery Ships by a “Q” Boat Commander
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…
CHURCHILL: The End of Glory
Headline-making revisionist history 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 copy of…
LLOYD GEORGE
War Leader
The fourth volume of Grigg’s definitive biography, covering Lloyd George’s World War I Prime Ministership. This is a very good copy of the First English edition, in an unclipped dust…
CHURCHILL WARRIOR
How a Military Life Guided Winston's Finest Hours
…sea, and air, and how he used that knowledge to effectively lead as both Minster of Defense and Prime Minster during World War II, in the face of staggering odds….
THEODORE ROOSEVELT: AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY
-Signed First American Edition-
…of my ‘America and World War’ and charge to me. T. Roosevelt.” There is a spot of tape shadow on the verso of the letter and on the half-title as…
DISASTER IN KOREA
The Chinese Confront MacArthur
On November 24th, 1950 General MacArthur ordered an attack on the Yalu River running between China and North Korea with the intention of ending the Korean War. This volume, the…
STEMMING THE TIDE
-First American Edition-
The fourth volume of Churchill’s collected post-war speeches (February 7, 1951 – December 11, 1952), encompassing Churchill’s return as Prime Minister amidst battles with Labour over rationing and all manifestations…
CHURCHILL WANTED DEAD OR ALIVE
Winston Churchill’s granddaughter brilliantly reconstructs Churchill’s experiences as a war correspondent during the Boer War in South Africa, including his infamous escape from a Boer prison, an escape that received…
TOBACCO CARD: “Earl Roberts, Commander-in-Chief of the British Army”
A very early Boer War-era tobacco card featuring a bust-length portrait photograph of General Earl Roberts, “Commander-in-Chief of the British Army” during the Boer War. The verso is blank. The…
CHURCHILL’S COOKBOOK
As-new, the first reissue ever of the renowned RECIPES FROM NO. 10, written by the Churchill family’s revered chef during the war and after, Georgina Landemare, who gave up a…