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AMERICAN COMMISSAR
Author was a Hungarian communist in the U.S.; served as commissar and historian of an International Brigade in the Spanish Civil War; disillusioned, he quit the Party and returned to…
IN RETROSPECT
The Tragedy and Lessons of Vietnam
Robert McNamara’s reflections on a war that he came to reject and later regret. Drawn from documents only recently declassified and his experience as the Secretary of Defense for two…
THE LIFE AND WARS OF GIDEON J. PILLOW
This is a very good copy of the First American edition in an unclipped dust jacket. Pillow served with distinction in the Mexican War. During the Civil War he commanded…
MERCHANTS OF TREASON: America’s Secrets for Sale
A classically paranoid late cold war text claiming to be “the first comprehensive analysis of how and why we are losing so badly in the back-alley war of counter espionage.”…
BANNERS IN THE AIR
The Eighth Ohio Volunteers and the Spanish-American War
A Civil War veteran and commander of the only regiment from Ohio to go to Cuba, Curtis V. Hard has written a personal and compelling account of the last days…
UNDER FIRE
The Story of American War Correspondents
The story of American war correspondents from the Revolution through the Persian Gulf war. A near fine copy in very good dust jacket (160 pages, numerous photographs, index)….
THE COMPLETE NEW ZEALAND DISTINGUISHED CONDUCT MEDAL
All 528 recipients to date, Boer War through Korean War. The 1978 first edition was a limited private edition. A very good copy, corners slightly bumped, very limited occassional faint…
DISASTER IN KOREA
The Chinese Confront MacArthur
On November 24th, 1950 General MacArthur ordered an attack on the Yalu River running between China and North Korea with the intention of ending the Korean War. This volume, the…
CHURCHILL: QUESTIONS AND ANALYSIS IN HISTORY
As new, in wraps. A close analysis for students of Churchill’s career. The author was head of Corporate Education at the Imperial War Museum and taught at the Cabinet War…
TOBACCO CARD: “Maj. Gen. Ian Hamilton”
A very early Boer War-era tobacco card featuring a bust-length portrait photograph of Churchill’s favorite Boer War colleague. The verso is blank. The card is in very good condition.
UNIFORM REGULATIONS FOR THE ARMY OF THE UNITED STATES 1861
Illustrated with contemporary official war department photographs. A very good copy, cover slightly faded (61 pages)….
CHURCHILL WANTED DEAD OR ALIVE
-First American Edition-
Winston Churchill’s granddaughter brilliantly reconstructs Churchill’s experiences as a war correspondent during the Boer War in South Africa, including his infamous escape from a Boer prison, an escape that received…