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COMMON DESTINY
Dictatorship, Foreign Policy, and War in Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany
A very good copy, without dust jacket. Compares the structure and dynamics in the two countries. Also has a fair amount on the Italian Army at war, 1940-43….
TRUXTUN OF THE CONSTELLATION
The Life of Commodore Thomas Truxtun, U.S. Navy 1755-1822
The first full length biography pf Truxtun, who was privateersman in the Revolution and fought in the Quasi-War with France. Facsimile reprint of the 1956 first edition. A near fine…
FROM PRESIDENT TO PRISON
A Polish novelist, journalist, explorer and professor, Ossendowski was a chemist cooperating with the Russian army during the Russo-Japanese War. After the 1905 revolution he was briefly president of the…
GARBO
The Spy who Save D-Day
…dust jacket. An account of the wartime activities of the first major double agent in the history of espionage, Juan Pujol, with an introduction on British intelligence during the war….
PEARL HARBOR
A very good copy in an unclipped dust jacket. A good overview of the aims, planning and execution of the attack, by a prominent historian of the Pacific war….
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….
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…
ADMIRAL RICHARD WAINWRIGHT AND THE UNITED STATES FLEET
Official Naval History Division biography. Wainwright served 1868-1911, fought in the Spanish-American War and was a central figure in revitalizing the fleet and the Naval Academy. A fine copy, issued…
SPYING FOR AMERICA
The Hidden History of U.S. Intelligence
A history of intelligence from the Revolutionary War to date. A very good copy, in dust jacket with faded spine and light edge wear….
GUSTAVUS ADOLPHUS
The Northern Hurricane
King of Sweden, 1611-32. Brilliant general and Protestant champion in the Thirty Years War. By a noted British military history writer. A very good copy, front cover & spine lightly…
THE HAND OF MORDECHAI
1948 War of Independence; kibbutz members held off the Egyptian Army for six days, saving Tel Aviv. A very good copy, except for heavily spotted spine, with light shelf wear,…
THE SANDSTORM
The Arab-Israeli War of June 1967: Prelude and Aftermath
Military and political aspects of the Six Day War. A very good copy, in torn dust jacket….