Introduction by Winston Churchill. A detailed account focusing on the year 1917 during WWI, and on the endurance and courage of British and French soldiers before the tide finally began to turn towards eventual victory.
The first full and authoritative account of the enormous task in identifying and commemorating a million dead soldiers of the British Commonwealth. With photographs of the beautiful memorials and cemeteries in the care of the Commission.
The official book produced to commemorate the opening of the Anzac Memorial in Hyde Park, Sydney N.S.W. Including chapters on the history of Australian forces in WWI, and the conception and building of the memorial. A Handsome volume.
A Handbook to the Munitions Acts as relating to employers and workmen, which were part of the huge amount of emergency legislation necessitated by war.
The English translation of a souvenir History of the Olympic Games, intended to celebrate the 1980 Moscow games. (Which was eventually boycotted by many countries, including the UK.) From the collection of a British Olympic Yachtsman.
In Italian. A history of sailing in the Olympic games from when it was first contested at the London games of 1908 (Racing off Ryde,) to Mexico in 1968. The chapters on each Games include the results in every class.
A Life of Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington from his birth in Ireland to his long military career during the Napoleonic Wars, culminating in the Battle of Waterloo; and his later years as a politician.
An account of the trial and subsequent exchange of Soviet spy Col. Abel with a US pilot on the border of East and West Berlin. The basis of the film Bridge of Spies.
