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“CANADA AND THE WAR”
Proceedings on the Occasion of An Address by the Rt. Hon. W.L. Mackenzie King, Prime Minster of Canada
This very rare pamphlet reprints an “Introduction” by Churchill as PM, delivered at Westminster, London on May 11, 1944, together with addresses by Canadian PM Mackenzie King; the Lord Chancellor…
THE RIVER WAR: A Historical Account of the Reconquest of the Soudan
-Rebacked First Edition Set-
This very good First English edition set has been rebacked, with new endpapers. The cloth is shelfworn, the gilt titles and cover art have slightly dimmed, but the overall appearance…
SIR HARRY VANE
His Life and Times (1613-1662)
Emissary of Charles I, second Governor of Massachusetts, joined Cromwell as a leading figure in the English Civil War, executed in 1662 by Charles II. A very good copy, corners…
SELECTIVE SERVICE IN WARTIME
Second Report of the Director of Selective Service: 1941-42
Second of four reports for WWII; includes sections on War Production, Conscientious Objectors, Enforcement, Great Britain, among others. This a very good copy, in wraps, as issued. The pages have…
SELECTED WORKS OF MAO TSE-TUNG
Volume I
English translation, covering the First and Second Revolutionary Wars and the Japanese War. A very good copy, covers a bit soiled & worn, 2 price tags removed from front cover….
GENERAL A.P. HILL
The Story of a Confederate Warrior
This is a very good copy of the Second Printing in an unclipped dust jacket. Hill was one of the least known Confederate generals yet one of the most important…
THE ART SPY
The Extraordinary Untold Tale of WWII Resistance Hero Rose Valland
A riveting and stylish saga set in Paris during World War II, The Art Spy uncovers how an unlikely heroine infiltrated the Nazi leadership to save the world’s most treasured…
FLATLAND
-The Arion Press Edition-
…Abbott (who published pseudonymously under the name: “Square”) relates the story of a square living in a two-dimensional world who visits a world of lines, another comprised of just a…
MELLON VS. CHURCHILL
The Untold Story of Treasury Titans at War
A fascinating reexamination of a little-known corner of Churchill’s vast career, his post-World War I duel with the great American tycoon, Andrew Mellon, over British war debt. New in dust…
Collier’s: “The Man Who Saved Paris”
-Magazine Article-
The third in a series of six Churchill articles about the First World War, conceived originally under the rubric: “Crucial Crises in the War.” This was the first appearance for…
THE BEAUTY AND THE SORROW
An Intimate History of the First World War
Focused on 20 people – from a 12-year-old German girl to a French civil servant and an American woman married to a Polish aristocrat – Englund’s account of World War…
ACHIEVING VICTORY
World War II
“A narrative of national strategic planning and its trials and tribulations in the mid- war period of World War II. A good copy in chipped and stained dust jacket (191…