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KOREA
The War Before Vietnam
A balanced account, examining the war’s origins and reprecussions. A very good copy, in mylar covered dust jacket….
FRONT RANK
Written for The North Carolina Confederate Centennial Commission
A short history of North Carolina in the Civil War. Gift from the author to the Columbia University School of Journalism, with signed presentation on front free endpaper. A very…
THE CAPTURE OF CETYWAYO
By the commander of the detached squadron of King’s Dragoon Guards that captured the Zulu king at the end of the Zulu War, Ngome forest, 1879. The original 1879 printing…
TRIUMPH DER KRIEGSKUNST
Das Kriegsjahr 1940 in der Darstellung des Volkischen Beobachters
High ranking accounts of Norway and the Fall of France; contributors include Kesselring, Todt, Prentzel, Lutzow and others. A good ex-U.S. War Dept. Library copy, without dust jacket. Library label…
VICTORS AND VANQUISHED
The German Influence on Army and Church in France after 1870
The formation of the French Republic in the aftermath of the Franco-Prussian war, including universal military conscription, compulsory education, etc. A very good copy, in dust jacket….
THE GREAT BETRAYAL: The Definitive Story of Blunt, Philby, Burgess, and Maclean
A concise account of the “Cambridge” spies, 1930s-63. Collectively they perjured the British intelligence service in the most notorious Cold War case of all time. A very good copy, in…
CHILDREN OF GRACE
The Nez Perce War of 1877
…eventually resulting in the war of 1877. Led by Chief Joseph, Looking Glass and White Bird against the might of the American Calvary and found themselves fleeing over 1,200 miles…
THE FUSING OF THE PLOUGHSHARE
From East Anglia to Alamein: The Story of a Yeoman at War
A very good copy, in an unclipped dust jacket. Signed by THE author on the front end paper. The author volunteered for a Territorial Yeomanry Regt. before the war and…
A ROYAL CAVALIER
The Romance of Rupert, Prince Palatine
An impressive career Rupert (1619-1689) fought very capably for Charles I during the English Civil War, and again for Charles II as an admiral in the Anglo-Dutch Wars. He was…
ISLAND IN TIME
A Memoir of Childhood
Carlisle’s girlhood on the island of Oleron, off the west coast of France, occupied by the Germans through the end of the war. A very good copy, in dust jacket…
EDUCATION BEFORE VERDUN
The first novel in Zweig’s famous anti-war trilogy, followed by “The Case of Sergeant Grischa” and “The Crowning of a King”. Original German title: “Erziehung vor Verdun. Roman” (1935). Translated…
THIRD ANNUAL REPORT OF THE STATE HISTORIAN OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, 1897
…and the cloth cover is lightly soiled; else fine. Contents are remarkably clean and unfoxed. Contains lengthy Colonial muster rolls and articles on Civil War battles involving New York regiments….