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CHURCHILL’S SECRET WAR
The British Empire and the Ravaging of India During Word War II
…as a bulwark againt Japan, and spent years before and after World War II warning of the bloodshed he envisioned when independence would be granted and attempting to protect the…
HAPPY DISPATCHES: Journalistic pieces from Banjo Paterson’s days as a war correspondent
The beloved Australian writer, reporting for the Sydney Morning Herald on the Boer War, China, London, World War I, British generals, Churchill, Kipling, etc. Fine writing. Originally published in 1934….
TOBACCO CARD: “Winston L.S. Churchill, War Correspondent”
A very early Boer War-era tobacco card featuring Great Britain’s highest paid war reporter of his time. Manufactured in 1901 for Ogden’s Tab Cigarettes, the card measures 2 1/4 x…
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…
HET VERGETEN SQUADRON
Het verhaal de Nederlandse vliegers, die tegen Japan hun vergeten strijd vochten.
The memoirs of a Dutch bomber squadron commander in the Pacific in World War II; Dutch participation in the Pacific theater has been largely forgotten. Uncommon in Europe, rare on…
TEN SECONDS FROM NOW
A Broadcaster's Story
The memoirs of a BBC broadcaster, including World War II. A very good copy, corners slightly worn, in dust jacket with slightly chipped corners….
RECORD OF PENNSYLVANIA VOLUNTEERS IN THE SPANISH AMERICAN WAR 1898
This is a very good copy of the Second Edition without dust jacket. The book has been professionally rebound in red cloth with the original title section affixed to the…
LIVING-ROOM WAR
Writings about Television
A very good copy of the Second Printing of the First American edition in an unclipped dust jacket. A previous owner’s name is written in black ink on the front…
MIDDLE EAST WAR PROJECTS
OF JOHNSON, DRAKE & PIPER, INC. FOR THE CORPS OF ENGINEERS, 1942-1943
Privately printed by Johnson, Drake & Piper documenting their engineering and construction projects in the Middle East for the U.S. Army during World War II, including Egypt, the Sudan, the…
CHURCHILL, THE GREAT GAME AND TOTAL WAR
-First English Edition-
…the publisher’s Cass Series on Politics and Military Affairs in the Twentieth Century, a study of the interaction between Churchill, the British people and the army during World War II….
THE WAR AND COLONEL WARDEN
Based on the recollections of C.R Thompson, Personal Assistant to the Prime Minister 1940-45
An intimate diary based on the recollections of Churchill’s wartime naval aide Tommy Thompson; important as a primary source for many famous World War II encounters and some little-known anecdotes….
THE PACIFIC WAR REMEMBERED
An Oral History Collection
A fine copy, in an unclipped dust jacket. First hand accounts of U.S. Navy and Marine Corps actions (sea, air and amphibious) in World War II by 30 participants….