Search Results
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….
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…
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…
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…
CHURCHILL STYLE: The Art of Being Winston Churchill
-First American Edition Signed by the Author and by Michael Korda-
…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,…
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…
SWEPT CHANNELS
Being an Account of the Work of the Minesweepers in the Great War
A full and detailed World War I history of minesweepers and their crews, derived from their personal experiences. This is a bright and crisp copy of the First English edition,…
WARS AND RUMOURS OF WARS: A Memoir
1887-1985: Haig’s staff in World War I, in charge of Western Command 1941-42, then worked with SOE and MI6, later President of the Royal Geographical Society. A very good copy,…
THE DREAM
-Deluxe Limited Edition-
…him in 1947. The son reviews for his father all that has happened to the world since Randolph died in 1895 — never revealing the role that he himself played…
SLEEP IN PEACE TONIGHT: A Novel
-Signed First American Edition-
A crackling historical novel of World War II that tracks President Roosevelt’s trusted emissary, Harry Hopkins, as he arrives in London to meet and assess the new British Prime Minister,…
“THIS COUNTRY NEEDS A NEW PARLIAMENT”
Speech by the Rt. Hon. Winston Churchill at the 21st Annual Conference of the Central Women’s Advisory Committee, at the Royal Albert Hall, London, on Wednesday, 21st April, 1948
““There can be no hope for the world unless the peoples of Europe unite together to preserve their freedom, their culture and their civilisation… I have always tried to keep…