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TAIL OF THE PAPER TIGER
On location for the associated press in June of 1950 when fighting broke out, King delivers a first hand account of the war and the situation in Korea up to…
ROLL OF HONOR OF THE SEVENTY-SIXTH U.S. FIELD ARTILLERY
Attached to the 3rd Infantry Div., using 75mm guns, including a (very) brief history of the unit in the war. In combat from May, 1918 on at the Marne, St….
MEMORIES AND ADVENTURES
…the son of Randolph Churchill and Pamela Harriman – describes his youth and revisits his early adventures following in the footsteps of his father and grandfather as a war correspondent….
GENERALISSIMO CHURCHILL
-First English Edition-
Thompson’s third critique expands his analysis from Montgomery to all the generals, saying Churchill should have left war plans to the brass. A very good copy, in a price-clipped dust…
TURMOIL AND TRADITION
A Study of the Life and TImes of Henry L. Stimson
The story of an American statesman, who served as Secretary of War, Governor-General of the Philippines, and Secretary of State. A very good copy, owner’s name in ink on front…
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…
THE DUKE OF CORNWALL’S OWN RIFLES: A Regimental History of the Forty-Third Regiment, Active Militia of Canada
-Signed and Inscribed Presentation Copy-
…a faint damp-spot on front cover. Contents fine and include period advertisements from Ottawa-area businesses. The Forty-Third Regiment served in the Fenian Raids, the Northwest Rebellion and the Boer 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….
JAPAN’S AMERICAN INTERLUDE
A very good copy, without dust jacket. The political, economic, cultural impact of U.S. post-war occupation….