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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,…
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….
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….
ERNST LUDWIG KIRCHNER RETROSPECTIVE
As-new, in dust jacket. Opulent volume presenting works from large museums and private collections throughout the world….
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…
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…
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…
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…