Map frontispiece. "The action in this book took place from Sept.17th to Sept.25th, 1944." Diary of a glider pilot with the First British Airborne Division at Arnhem.
The first edition is...
A comprehensive account of early motor racing (1895-1935) by G. E. T. Eyston and Barre Lyndon.
Captain George Edward Thomas Eyston MC OBE (28 June 1897 – 11 June 1979) was a British...
Contents: The art of war / by Sun Tzu -- The military institutions of the Romans / by Vegetius -- My reveries on the art of war / by Marshal Maurice de Saxe -- The instruction of Frederick...
Printed on bifoliate leaves uncut at fore-edge and bound in the Oriental sewn style. Profusely illustrated with 82 plates, 3 in wood engraving, 5 in color, the remainder in collotype....
Charles Hitchcock Sherrill was an American diplomat and US Ambassador to Turkey from 1932 to 1933.
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk was a Turkish army officer, revolutionary statesman, writer, and...
Marvelous early book on New York City told through over 200 photographs and comments documenting how New Yorkers lived, worked and played at the height of the great depression.