Winston Churchill
Foothold in Europe: The Campaigns in Sicily, Italy, the Far East and Russia Between July 1943 and May 1944
London: Faber and Faber Limited, [1945]. First Printing. 21 cm, 243, illus., maps, index, some wear, soiling, and small edge tears and chips to DJ, erasure residue on front endpaper. More
Troublesome Young Men; The Rebels Who Brought Churchill to Power and Helped Save England
New York, N.Y. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007. First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. [12], 436 pages. Includes Introduction, Notes, Bibliography, Acknowledgments, and Index. Lynne Olson (born August 19, 1949) is an American author, historian and journalist. She was born on August 19, 1949 and is married to Stanley Cloud, with whom she often writes. In 1969 she graduated from University of Arizona. Before becoming a writer she worked for the Associated Press and the Baltimore Sun. She has written several books on the history of the World War II era, which have received positive critical reviews. In 2002 she won the Christopher Award for her book Freedom's Daughters: The Unsung Heroines of the Civil Rights Movement from 1830 to 1970. The story of Winston Churchill in 1940 is, without question, one of the most compelling dramas in modern British history. Some historians dismiss the "phony war" (from September 1939, when Britain and France declared war on Germany, to May 1940, when Winston Churchill became prime minister)--as a time of waiting and inaction, but Olson makes no such mistake. She described in colorful detail the public unrest that spread through Britain as people realized how poorly prepared the nation was to confront Hitler, and how drastically their basic civil liberties were being jeopardized. Then, slowly, they recognized that there were intrepid politicians willing to risk political suicide to spearhead the opposition to the Chamberlain government--Harold Macmillan, Roger Bothby, Leo Amery, Ronald Cartland, and Lord Robert Cranborne among them. More
Troublesome Young Men; The Rebels Who Brought Churchill to Power, and Helped Save England
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007. Second printing [stated]. Hardcover. [12], 436 pages. Notes, Bibliography, Acknowledgments, and Index. Signed copy sticker on front of the DJ. Signed by the author on the title page. Minor tear and crease at bottom of page 435/6. DJ has some wear and soiling. Includes Introduction and chapters entitled: 'We May Be Going to Die'; Playing the Game; "Troublesome Young Men''; "Dictators Are Very Popular These Days"; "I Lack the "Spunk"; "Quite Simply, He Told Lies''; "Our Own Soul Is at Stake"; "Terrible, Unmitigated, Unparalleled Dishonor"'; Retribution; "Waiting for a Stirring Lead"; "Here Is the Testing"; "Speak for England"; Playing at War; "The Misery of Doing Nothing"; "He Is Absolutely Loyal"; "Gambling with the Life of the Nation";" In the Name of God, Go!'' ; "Victory at all Costs"; A Question of Loyalty; A Son's Betrayal; Aftermath. Lynne Olson (born August 19, 1949) is an American author, historian and journalist. In 1969 she graduated from University of Arizona. Before becoming a writer she worked for the Associated Press and the Baltimore Sun. She has written several books on the history of the World War II era, which have received positive critical reviews. More
Neither Friend Nor Roe: The European Neutrals in World War II
New York: Scribner, c1992. First Printing. 25 cm, 432, map, notes. More
King of Fools
Place_Pub: New York: St. Martin's Press, c1988. First U.S. Edition. First Printing. 24 cm, 312, illus., bibliography, index, edges soiled. Afterword by Timothy Seely, purported illegitimate son of the Duke of Windsor. More
Blood, Toil, Tears and Sweat: The War History from Dunkirk to Alamein, Based on the War Cabinet Papers of 1940 to 1942
New York: D. McKay Company, [1973]. First American Edition. First? Printing. 22 cm, 538, illus., index, usual library markings, boards somewhat worn and soiled, some page discoloration. More
Jack: The Struggles of John F. Kennedy
New York: Dial Press, 1980. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. 24 cm. xvii, [3], 586 pages. Illustrations (jacket states 32 pages of photographs). Some wear and soiling to DJ. Herbert Samuel Parmet (Stylized as Herbert S. Parmet) (September 28, 1929 – January 25, 2017)[1] was an American writer, biographer, and distinguished historian most notable for his works of writing on American presidents. In total, Parmet would author and co-author a total of 11 books throughout his vocation, mostly regarding politics and the lives of American presidents such as John F Kennedy and Richard Nixon. Glen Macnow of the Detroit Free Press described Parmet in his writings about Kennedy as someone that "...remains detached from the Kennedy mystique, portraying the man as neither a hero of Camelot nor a woman-chasing scoundrel." and that "Above all, Parmet avoids romanticizing JFK." Macnow's approved of his impartiality in his work on Kennedy, More
"Air Force Spoken Here": General Ira Eaker and the Command of the Air
Bethesda, MD: Adler & Adler, 1986. Second Edition. Presumed First Printing. Hardcover. 24 cm, 557 pages, illus., bibliography, index, former owner's embossed stamp on several pages, DJ in plastic sleeve, tear at rear DJ. The author was the founding publisher of American Heritage, the innovative magazine in hardcover book form that chronicled various periods of U.S. history and won a Pulitzer Prize for its "Picture History of the Civil War". Parton was also founding publisher of Horizon magazine and the 1940s newspaper the Los Angeles Independent. The eclectic publisher had a lifelong love affair with words. He wrote the annual musical comedy of the Hasty Pudding Club as a Harvard undergraduate, and he was a writer, editor and management assistant for 13 years with Time Inc. Parton later served as president of Encyclopaedia Britannica, head of the National Advertising Review Board, and assistant librarian of Congress. He was the author of the well-received 1986 book "Air Force Spoken Here." But Parton's greatest legacy remains American Heritage. More
On Every Front: The Making and Unmaking of the Cold War
New York: W. W. Norton, c1992. Revised Edition. First Printing. 22 cm, 304, sticker residue on DJ. More
The War and Colonel Warden: Based on the Recollections of Com. C. R. Thompson, Personal Assistant to the Prime Minister
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1963. First American Edition. 436, illus., app, biblio, index, lib stamps ins fr flylf & r bd crossed out in marker, rough spot ins r flylf, some wear to DJ. More
The War and Colonel Warden: Based on the Recollections of Com. C. R. Thompson, Personal Assistant to the Prime Minister
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1963. First American Edition. 436, illus., appendix, bibliography, index, usual library markings, some wear to board corners This book focuses on Winston Churchill's life, day by day, as he directed the war effort during World War II. More
De Gaulle and the United States: A Centennial Reappraisal
Oxford: Berg, 1994. Hardcover. 22 cm, 433, very slightly cocked/shaken, very faint pencil erasure on front endpaper. More
The Truman Presidency: The History of a Triumphant Succession
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1966. Third Printing. 24 cm, 463, illus., footnotes, notes on sources, index, DJ somewhat worn, soiled, edge tears, and chips. More
Eisenhower Declassified
Old Tappan, NJ: Revell, c1979. First? Edition. First? Printing. 24 cm, 400, illus., source notes, index, ink notation on flyleaf, DJ soiled and worn: tears at DJ edges. More
Eisenhower Declassified
Old Tappan, NJ: Revell, c1979. First? Edition. First? Printing. 24 cm, 400, illus., source notes, index, some soiling to DJ, small tear in front DJ, small rough spot ins fr flylf. More
George C. Marshall: Organizer of Victory, 1943-1945
New York: The Viking Press, 1973. Book Club Edition. Hardcover. 683 pages. Illustrations. Maps, endpaper maps, bibliography, chronology, notes, index, DJ worn and scuffed, small tears to DJ edges. More
George C. Marshall: Organizer of Victory, 1943-1945
New York: The Viking Press, 1973. First Edition. 683, illus., maps, endpaper maps, bibliography, chronology, notes, index, boards weak, inside rear hinge reinforced with tape. More
George C. Marshall: Organizer of Victory, 1943-1945
New York: The Viking Press, 1973. Presumed First Edition/First Printing. Hardcover. xviii, 683 pages. Illustrations. Maps. Endpaper maps. Bibliographical Note. Selected Bibliography. Chronology. Abbreviations. Notes. Index. DJ has some wear and soiling. Publisher's ephemera (press release, b/w photo of General Marshall, distribution slip addressed to Stewart Alsop, Washington Bureau of NEWSWEEK) laid in. The author was the Director of the George C. Marshall Research Foundation and Executive Director of the Marshall Library. Formerly, he was a Department of the Army historian. He earned a Bronze Star for front-line combat in the European Theater of Operations during WWII. He was subsequently an Operations Research analysts with the Johns Hopkins University. More
George C. Marshall; Organizer of Victory, 1943-1945
New York: The Viking Press, 1973. Second Printing [stated]. Hardcover. xviii, 683, [3] pages. Endpaper maps. Maps. Illustrations. Bibliographical Note. Selected Bibliography. Chronology. Abbreviations. Notes. Index. DJ has some wear and soiling. Inscribed by the author on the half-title page. Forrest Carlisle Pogue Jr. (September 17, 1912 – October 6, 1996) was an official United States Army historian during World War II. He was a proponent of oral history techniques, and collected many oral histories from the war under the direction of chief Army historian S. L. A. Marshall. Forrest Pogue was for many years the Executive Director of the George C. Marshall Foundation as well as Director of the Marshall Library located on the campus of Virginia Military Institute in Lexington, Virginia. He earned a Bronze Star for front-line combat in the European Theater of Operations during WWII. He was subsequently an Operations Research analysts with the Johns Hopkins University. In 1956, Pogue was hired by the George C. Marshall Foundation to write the official biography of George Marshall. From 1963 to 1987, he worked on the four volume biography, and read over 3.5 million pages of research material while completing his work on Marshall. A pioneer of oral-history techniques, Mr. Pogue captured on tape about 40 hours of interviews with Marshall and also recorded encounters with more than 300 people who had known him, many of them prominent figures themselves. More
Armageddon: The Reality Behind the Distortions, Myths, Lies, and Illusions of World War II
New York: Random House, c1995. First U.S. Edition. First Printing. 25 cm, 376, acid-free paper, maps, usual library markings, DJ stuck to boards. More
Northcliffe
London: Cassell, [1959]. 24 cm, 933, illus., bibliography, index, DJ edges worn, tear at top of DJ spine, edges soiled. More
Total War: What It Is, How It Got That Way
New York: W. Morrow, 1988. First Edition. First Printing. 22 cm, 188, some wear to DJ and DJ edges, sticker residue to DJ. Thomas Powers was a Pulitzer Prize winner. More