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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 &…
CHURCHILL STYLE
The Art of Being Winston Churchill
…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,…
SAVROLA
-"Sevenpenny Library" Edition-
This is a very good copy of the so-called “Cheap Edition,” a rather small and fragile clothbound paperback-equivalent of the World War I-era. The cloth remains a deep red and…
CHURCHILL: The Prophetic Statesman
Churchill’s uncanny prescience about world events is the subject of Humes’s latest study. New, in dust jacket….
OUR SUPREME TASK
How Winston Churchill's Iron Curtain Speech Defined the Cold War Alliance
…words of what we now know as the “Iron Curtain Speech” affected people from every sector of the population, from world leaders and policymakers to businesspeople and homemakers. White provides…
CODE-NAME MARIANNE: An Autobiography
A very good copy, in an unclipped, lightly shelfworn worn dust jacket. One of the Deuxieme Bureau’s (French Intelligence) most daring World War II agents, 1938-1942. This Czech woman photographed…
WINSTON CHURCHILL
-First English Edition-
An excellent pre-World War II account of Churchill’s life story. This is a good First English edition copy, without dust jacket. There is a lengthy ink gift inscription on the…
POWER AND INFLUENCE
…which became the basis for Britain’s post-World War II welfare state under the Labour government elected in 1945. An authority on unemployment insurance from early in his career, Beveridge served…
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…
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….
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….
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…