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…
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…
Followup to Lady Soames’ 2012 memoir, A DAUGHTER’S TALE, comprising her wartime diaries, 1939-1945. Though self-characterized by Lady Soames herself as “the diary of an ordinary person’s life in war…
Examines the role of the UN, NATO and “smaller” nations, and how their restraint helped to prevent the war from escalating beyond the Korean peninsula. A very good copy, in…
This is a very good First American edition set without dust jackets of the four post-war speech volumes, as published in the U.S. SINEWS OF PEACE is virtually mint, with…
Convicted as a holocaust denier in a Vienna court in 2006, David Irving first published his notorious”Churchill’s War” in 1987, a book that only Tucker Carlson could countenance, riven with…
Written by the Army Chief of Staff, this volume presents an insiders account of the activities of the Joint Chiefs of Staff throughout the war and includes a detailed analysis…
The midpoint of the war. A fine copy, in like dust jacket. (317p., 3 maps, appendix, notes, biblio., index.)…
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,…
…country collecting the stories of average Americans in hopes of providing a portrait of the war’s effects on a wide range of people. A very good copy, in dust jacket….
“Macmillan Wars of the United States” series. A provocative and controversial analysis of strategy and policy, from the Revolutionary War to date. A very good copy, light edge wear, owner’s…
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….