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MEMOIR OF THE BOBOTES

By: Joyce Cary

By the novelist and Red Cross stretcher bearer in the Balkan War, 1912-13. A very good copy, slight edge wear, in dust jacket with light wear to corners….

A SERVANT OF THE CROWN IN ENGLAND AND NORTH AMERICA, 1756-61

By: Norreys Jephson O’Connor

Based on the account books of John Appy, this work chronicles the life of one British functionary whose travels to America during the French Indian War provide a detailed picture…

THE GREAT EARL OF PETERBOROUGH

By: Colin R. Ballard

Biography of Charles Mordaunt (1658-1735), ardent opponent of James II, supporter of William of Orange, commander of British forces in the War of the Spanish Succession. A good ex-library copy,…

A GUNNER ABOARD THE “YANKEE”

From the Diary of Number Five of the After Port Gun

By: Russell Doubleday; H.H. Lewis, Editor

A New York Naval reservist on an auxiliary cruiser in the Cuban blockade squadron. A classic Spanish-American War memoir. Reading copy, without dust jacket. (38 illus. [4 color], appendix.)…

EDUCATION BEFORE VERDUN

By: Arnold Zweig

First novel in Zweig’s war trilogy; followed by The Case of Sergeant Grischa and The Crowning of a King. Original German title: Erziehung vor Verdun. Roman (1935). Translated from the…

THE REASON WHY

By: Cecil Woodham-Smith

The feud between Lucan and Cardigan and the charge of the Light Brigade at Balaclava in the Crimean War; due to an ambiguous order, 488 out of 673 men were…

FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE, 1820-1910

By: Cecil Woodham-Smith

This biography of Florence Nightingale, which focuses on her service during the Crimean War, draws on various family papers not available to Sir Edward Cook when he composed her official…

THE NEW MEANING OF TREASON

By: Rebecca West

A revision and update of her 1947 volume The Meaning of Treason, including a new section on Cold War traitors. The author, whose given name was admired by Dulles. A…

C.S.S. SHENANDOAH

The Memoirs of Lieutenant Commanding James I. Waddell

By: James I. Waddell, Lt.; James D. Doran, Editor

The tremendously successful Confederate commerce raider during the American Civil War. A very good copy, corners lightly worn, covers a bit scuffed, spine slightly sunned, without dust jacket. (200p., 15…

MR. CHURCHILL: A PORTRAIT

By: Philip Guedalla

A best-selller in its day, useful and well-written, if less than scholarly. This is an interesting curiosity, a very good English edition copy specifically produced for the end of war