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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…
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…
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…
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….
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…
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…
THE POLTAVA AFFAIR
A Russian Warning, an American Tragedy
“A minute-by-minute account of the secret World War II operation that foreshadowed the Cold War.” A very good copy, spine and corners slightly bumped, dust jacket faded with slightly worn…
SQUADRON A
A History of Its First Fifty Years
The New York National Guard cavalry unit in the Spanish-American War and in World War I with the 27th Infantry Div. A good copy, corners a bit frayed, spine head…
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…
WITH MY OWN EYES
A Personal Story of Battle Years
A newsman in Alaska, the Philippine Rebellion, the Boxer Rebellion, the Russo-Japanese War and World War I. A very good copy, spine head & tail somewhat worn, without dust jacket….
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…