A unique contribution to Churchill scholarship, Downing mines Churchill’s fascination with new technologies, espionage and the “science of war” in the modern age, arguing that Allied victory was due in…
Originally published in 1972 as YOUNG WINSTON’S WARS, this collection reprints Churchill’s early despatches as a young war correspondent writing from the Northwest Frontier, the Sudan and South Africa, plus…
The politics, society and culture of the capital suddenly thrown into war. A near fine copy, corners slightly worn, in dust jacket with slightly faded spine. (286p., 26 illus.)…
The last articles and notes of the renowned war correspondent and authority on Southeast Asia, author of the superb “Hell in a Very Small Place,” about Dien Bien Phu. He…
While not attempting to predict the outcome of the Vietnam War, Pike examines the motives and objectives of the interested parties in an attempt to understand various possibilities for the…
Traces the series of violent conflicts in which the US Military involved itself in the decade following the “end” of war. A very good copy in slightly chipped dust jacket,…
A detailed history of modern guerilla warfare, intended to give a historical perspective on the war in Vietnam. Both volumes are very good First American edition copies, without dust jackets….
Told by husband and wife in alternating chapters, IN LOVE AND WAR is the story of a Navy fighter pilot shot down during a bombing raid in September of 1965…
Combining personal accounts with archival sources, Hastings explores this major 20th century conflict that is arguably the direct predecessor of the Vietnam war yet remains largely untouched by popular military…
Vol. I: The American Iliad as Told By Those Who Lived It, Vol. II: The Picture Chronicle of the Events, Leaders and Battlefields of the War. Vol. 1 was published…
A masterwork of military history that combines battlefield-level detail with command-level history as well as the domestic and international political dimensions of the war. A very good copy, in mylar…
Inventions, generals’ idiosyncracies and much other interesting trivia. Originally published as Our Incredible Civil War, 1960. A fine copy, in like dust jacket. (249p., illus., biblio.)…