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THE CHEQUERED PAST
Sports Car Racing & Rallying in Canada 1951-1991
An encyclopedic guide to Canadian car racing, which underwent critical changes in the second half of the twentieth century to become a player on the world stage.
TO A VICTORIOUS CONCLUSION! The Prime Minister’s Appeal to the Nation
-Rare World War I Recruitment Pamphlet-
A variant first printing of this rare World War I-vintage stapled paper pamphlet containing, “Speeches delivered at the Guildhall, London, on September 4th, 1914, by Mr. Asquith, Mr. Bonar Law,…
IN COMMAND OF HISTORY
Churchill Fighting and Writing the Second World War
A marvelously readable analysis of Churchill’s WWII achievements, first as Prime Minister and then as author of the war’s definitive history. Illuminates especially Churchill’s second “Wilderness Years” period of 1945-1951,…
CHURCHILL’S ARMY 1939-1945
The Men, Machines and Organisation
As-new in dust jacket. A large-format, lushly illustrated coffee table book that examines every aspect of the British Army during the Second World War….
MY EARLY LIFE: A Roving Commission
-First English Edition in Dust Jacket-
…with only nominal fading to the fade-prone spine. The binding is the Second State of the First Printing (per Cohen), with the variant five-line title block on the cover and…
WARTIME
Understanding and Behavior in the Second World War
“This book is about the psychological and emotional culture of Americans and Britons during the Second World War… the rationalizations and euphemisms people needed to deal with an unacceptable actuality…
CHURCHILL’S GRAND ALLIANCE
A Provocative Reassessment of the "Special Relationship" Between England and the U.S. from 1940-1957
The second headline-making revisionist history by a very good writer whose opinions about Churchill and World War II were notoriously muddled. (See also: CHURCHILL: THE END OF GLORY #2692) Regular…
THUNDER RUN
The Armored Strike to Capture Baghdad
…from the Second Brigade is a riveting firsthand account of how a single armored brigade was able to capture an Arab capital defended by one of the world’s largest armies….
FORTY YEARS ON… 1909-1949
-With a tipped-in facsimile telegram from Winston Churchll-
The company history of British aircraft manufacturer Handley Page, from its origins in 1909 to its peerless work during and after the Second World War. Winston Churchill’s contribution comes in…
TYPED BIRTHDAY THANK-YOU NOTE SIGNED BY WINSTON CHURCHILL
TO JOHN "JOCK" COLVILLE
A typed thank-you note on 28 Hyde Park Gate notepaper, dated “3 December, 1958,” three days days after Churchill’s 84th Birthday, to John Colville, Churchill’s Private Secretary during World War…
THE GRIFFIN
The Greatest Untold Espionage Story of World War II.
…changed our world with the discovery of nuclear fission, and, apparently, a pillar of Nazi society. Rosebaud was also Winston Churchill’s most valuable spy in Germany throughout World War II….
AFTER THE LOST WAR: A NARRATIVE
-First American Edition-
As-new, in an unclipped dust jacket. Hudgins relates this prose poem focused on the antebellum South in the voice of poet and musician Sidney Lanier, who died in 1881….