Ed Murrow became a national celebrity while still in his twenties, gaining a reputation as a first class broadcaster. His reports from Vienna during the Anschluss were the first to bring the horrors of the Nazi party to the attention of the American public. During the war years his finest broadcasts were made during the height of the blitz on London. He also accompanied bombing raids over Berlin and broadcast a harrowing report on the liberation of Buchenwald.

1987, Michael Joseph, , 0718128095,< J-01>,793pp. ills., Page edges browning. Good in dw, ,
Subject...Political & Biographies - General
Web No. 35462-01..............................£12.00

Signs of use, faded spine. Good study copy.The author retraces the life of one of the most well known war poets from his childhood spent in the back streets of Birkenhead and Shrewsbury to the appalling months in the tranches and cut short in a furious battle on the bank of the Sambre-Oise Canal on 4th November 1918.

1988, Oxford University Press, , 019282211X,< J-01>,333pp illustrations, , , CARD
Subject...Political & Biographies - General
Web No. 33552-01..............................£8.00

1991 was the 500th anniversary of Henry VIII's birth at Greenwich on 28 June 1491. This book offers both a reconstruction of Henry's palace at Greenwich where some of the most dramatic personal and political events took place and a reassessment of Henry VIII as a true prince of the Renaissance and his court as a cultural centre.

1991, Book Club Associates, , ,< J-01>,192pp illustrations, Very good in d/w, ,
Subject...Political & Biographies - General
Web No. 13296-01..............................£6.00

A scarce study of the life of the enigmatic General who won back the Sudan for Britain in 1898 (for which action he was Knighted). As Lord Kitchener he led Britain’s Military as Secretary of War in WWI. He was held responsible for the disaster at Gallipoli, and perished in 1916 when HMS Hampshire on which he was traveling to Russia, struck a mine off the Orkneys.

1935, Religious Tracts Society, , ,< J-01>,156pp, 4 photos, red cloth, spine faded, light foxing at eps, g, ,
Subject...Political & Biographies - General
Web No. 29502-01..............................£10.00

Profiles of six South African Generals. General Jacobus Hercules de la Rey, General Christiaan Rudolph de Wet, Major General Sir Timothy Timson Lukin, Lt-General Sir Jacob Louis van Deventer, Major-General Daniel Hermanus Pienaar and Major-General William Henry Evered Poole,

1978, Don Nelson.Cape Town, , 0909238340,< J-01>,Large Format.144pp illustrations, Good in torn d/w, ,
Subject...Political & Biographies - General
Web No. 34828-01..............................£10.00

Taken prisoner in 1942 in Singapore, the author was one of the few survivors of the Sonkurai camp on the Siam railway. He kept a diary which is the basis for this memoir, and which amounts to a meditation on the contradictory code of behaviour of the Japanese who kept him prisoner in such appalling conditions. His second journey up the Kwai took him beyond Sonkurai to the Three Pagodas Pass and into Burma with the guerrillas. In 1958, Stewart was David Lean's technical adviser during the shooting of Bridge On The River Kwai.

1988, Bloomsbury Publishing, , 0747502978,< J-01>,175pp, map, illustrations, Good in d/w, ,
Subject...Political & Biographies - General
Web No. 23808-01..............................£10.00

Red boards. ex army library Haerens Stab. stamped on endpapers and title page. General Joseph Warren Stilwell (1883 – 1946) was a United States Army four-star general best-known for his service in China and Burma. For his purported concern for the average soldier and forthright manner, he was nicknamed "Uncle Joe" and "Vinegar Joe." He became the Chief of Staff to Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek, served as the Commander of the China Burma India Theater responsible for all Lend-Lease supplies going to China, and later was Deputy Commander of the South East Asia Command.

1948, William Sloane Ass., , ,< J-01>,357pp,illustrations, endpaper maps, , ,
Subject...Political & Biographies - General
Web No. 2474-03..............................£8.00

The life and letters of Louis Stokes, from a school boy in 1915 to his death on the Somme in 1916 whilst serving with the Royal Marine Light Infantry. The book describes his life as a boy at Rugby School, his arguments with his pacifist father, how he was carried along with the patriotic fervour that gripped the country and his impatience to serve at the front.

1994, Leo Cooper, , 0850524253,< J-01>,190pp, 16 photos, map, index, vg in rubbed dw, ,
Subject...Political & Biographies - General
Web No. 20498-01..............................£10.00

Previous owner name on title page. What makes someone dedicate their life to the defence of a nation, whether it be on land, at sea, or in the air? What part did these people play in shaping the path of modern British military history? Britain as a nation has always been very proud of its military capabilities and personnel. Presented here is a collection of around 100 mini-biographies, taken from the "Dictionary of National Biography", of some of the people who made the defence of their country their life. Most names are immediately recognisable including Bader, Cavell, Allenby, Glubb, Ramsay, Lawrence and so many more.

2002, Oxford University Press, , 0198605323,< J-01>,524pp, Good in card covers, , CARD
Subject...Political & Biographies - General
Web No. 11375-01..............................£6.00

Ex library with dewey number on spine and title page. Date label removed from back endpaper. No obvious marks. This third volume in Han Suyin's autobiography covers the years between 1938 and 1948, which were dominated politically by the Japanese invasion and the decline of Chiang Kaishek's power.

1968, Jonathan Cape, , 0224614711,< J-01>,347pp illustrations, Ex Library. Good., ,
Subject...Political & Biographies - General
Web No. 17591-01..............................£6.00