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BRISTLES AND BRUSHES
A FOOTNOTE TO tHE STORY oF AMERICAN WAR PRODUCTION
A history of brush production during World War II. A very good copy, without dust jacket. Tipped onto the front pastedown is a special presentation sheet from the paintbrush company…
DECISION BY DEFAULT
Peacetime Conscription and British Defense 1919-39
An examination of Britain’s ambivalence towards peace time conscription and the resultant complications in military planning as World War Two approached. A very good copy, in dust jacket (243 pages,…
STORY OF A SECRET STATE
…contents are clean and unfoxed, with an intrusive vintage bookplate on the front pastedown. Else fine. The book that told the world about the Holocaust, by a Polish underground fighter…
STORY OF A SECRET STATE
A very good copy, without dust jacket of the Book-of-the-Month-Club edition, bound in red cloth. Virtually mint. The book that told the world about the Holocaust, by a Polish underground…
AND I WAS THERE
Pearl Harbor and Midway - Breaking the Secrets
…fine. The contents are fine, with a lengthy book review from Book World, dated 1/19/86, laid-in. CINCPAC intelligence officer to Kimmel and Nimitz. Acted on JN-25 Yamamato and Midway intercepts….
WINGED STALLION
Fighting and Training with the First Airborne
A very good copy, in an unclipped dust jacket. The author fought with the British 1st Airborne Division throughout World War II in North Africa, Sicily, Italy and in the…
TARGET TOKYO: The Story of the Sorge Spy Ring
…jacket with worn edges and a faint price-sticker shadow, else fine. The best account of the World War II Soviet network in Japan, which warned Stalin of German invasion plans….
THE RASH ADVENTURER
The Rise and Fall of Charles Edward Stuart
Bonnie Prince Charlie, The Young Pretender, was crushed at the Battle of Culloden, and subsequently slipped off the world stage. A very good copy, corners slightly bumped, spine head &…
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…
THE EPIC OF JUTLAND
-From the Library of Sir Winston Churchill-
…have been MY EARLY LIFE, then just-published. Obviously Aunt Leonie reciprocated almost immediately with this copy of her son’s latest work about the epic naval battle of World War I….
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…
LORD ROBERTS
-Bound Volume of The Windsor Magazine-
This Churchill essay profiling “Great Britain’s Foremost Soldier” was first published in the U.S. in World’s Work magazine in January 1901, before being published in Great Britain in the July…