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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…
INTO THE RISING SUN
As-new, in an unclipped dust jacket. Guadalcanal, Rabaul, Burma, New Guinea, the Marianas, the Philippines, Iwo Jima and Okinawa. In their own words, World War II’s Pacific veterans reveal the…
THE EVADERS
“The story of the most amazing mass escape of World War II.” A very good copy in an edge-worn dust jacket. The contents are fine….
UNIFORMEN DER ALTEN ARMEE (WALDORF-ASTORIA)
…guards mint. An album presenting 312 full-color cigarette cards of the uniforms of German regiments from the World War I, produced by the German cigarette company Waldorf-Astoria-Zigarettenfabrik. Text in German….
SUEZ
The Twice-Fought War; A History
…jacket. A NEW YORK TIMES correspondent examines the 1956 Suez War in exhaustive detail, and demonstrates that the 1967 Six Day War produced an almost identical situation regarding the canal….
KOREA AND THE FALL OF MACARTHUR
A Precis in Limited War
Beginning with the Potsdam conference and following the course of the war through 1951, Higgins examines the specific nature of a war that was both limited in scope and popularity…
THE WOUND WITHIN
America in the Vietnam Years, 1945-1974
Written on the premise that the Vietnam War was “not an idiosyncracy [but] rooted in history, habit and hauteur” this account regards the conflict in terms of American post war…
SELECTED WORKS OF MAO TSE-TUNG
Volume II
The War against Japan, role of party in national war, etc. A very good copy, covers slightly soiled….
AMERICAN COMMISSAR
Author was a Hungarian communist in the U.S.; served as commissar and historian of an International Brigade in the Spanish Civil War; disillusioned, he quit the Party and returned to…
IN RETROSPECT
The Tragedy and Lessons of Vietnam
Robert McNamara’s reflections on a war that he came to reject and later regret. Drawn from documents only recently declassified and his experience as the Secretary of Defense for two…
THE LIFE AND WARS OF GIDEON J. PILLOW
This is a very good copy of the First American edition in an unclipped dust jacket. Pillow served with distinction in the Mexican War. During the Civil War he commanded…