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AIRLIFT 1870
The Balloon and Pigeon Post in the Siege of Paris
A rare account of a particularly bizarre aspect of 19th century warfare. During the siege of Paris by Prussian forces from 1870 to 1871, what was a hobby became the…
THE RASH ADVENTURER
The Rise and Fall of Charles Edward Stuart
Bonnie Prince Charlie, The Young Pretender, was crushed at the Battle of Culloden, and subsequently slipped off the world stage. A very good copy, corners slightly bumped, spine head &…
BOSWORTH FIELD: From Medieval to Tudor England
The final, decisive battle of the Wars of the Roses, 1485. From The Crossroads of World History Series. A near fine copy, spine head & tail lightly worn, in slightly…
WINGED STALLION
Fighting and Training with the First Airborne
A very good copy, in an unclipped dust jacket. The author fought with the British 1st Airborne Division throughout World War II in North Africa, Sicily, Italy and in the…
TOBACCO CARD: “Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill, MP”
World War I-era tobacco card, Number 3 of 50 manufactured for Scissors Cigarettes’ “Britain’s Defenders” series f 1915.,br> Issued in 1915, after Churchill’s resignation as First Lord of the Admiralty,…
SWEPT CHANNELS
Being an Account of the Work of the Minesweepers in the Great War
A full and detailed World War I history of minesweepers and their crews, derived from their personal experiences. This is a bright and crisp copy of the First English edition,…
LLOYD GEORGE
War Leader
The fourth volume of Grigg’s definitive biography, covering Lloyd George’s World War I Prime Ministership. This is a very good copy of the First English edition, in an unclipped dust…
MUSE OF FIRE
World War I as Seen Through the Lives of the Soldier Poets
By one of our favorite authors, an extraordinarily wide-ranging view of Britain’s trench soldier poets during World War I and the ways in which these different classes of men processed…
AND I WAS THERE
Pearl Harbor and Midway - Breaking the Secrets
…fine. The contents are fine, with a lengthy book review from Book World, dated 1/19/86, laid-in. CINCPAC intelligence officer to Kimmel and Nimitz. Acted on JN-25 Yamamato and Midway intercepts….
STORY OF A SECRET STATE
A very good copy, without dust jacket of the Book-of-the-Month-Club edition, bound in red cloth. Virtually mint. The book that told the world about the Holocaust, by a Polish underground…
STORY OF A SECRET STATE
…contents are clean and unfoxed, with an intrusive vintage bookplate on the front pastedown. Else fine. The book that told the world about the Holocaust, by a Polish underground fighter…
DECISION BY DEFAULT
Peacetime Conscription and British Defense 1919-39
An examination of Britain’s ambivalence towards peace time conscription and the resultant complications in military planning as World War Two approached. A very good copy, in dust jacket (243 pages,…