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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 443 pp. Vg in a price clipped Dw. Memoir of William W. Averell, Union Cavalryman.

First Edition. Near fine cloth copy in a very good if slightly edge-nicked and dust-toned dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description; xii, 595 pages, 8 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents; All aid to Britain, short of war -- How to be "something and somebody" -- "The British can hold out but they cannot win alone" -- Red wolves in the Kremlin -- Pearl Harbor: "at least there is a future now" -- No end of defeats -- To Moscow again, with Churchill -- "I prefer a comfortable oasis to the raft at Tilsit" -- Interlude at sea -- Farewell to London -- "I have come as a friend" -- Teheran, "friends in fact, in spirit and in purpose" -- "The history of war has never witnessed such a grandiose operation" -- Poland, the touchstone -- Warsaw, the doomed uprising -- Molotov's "unconventional request" for postwar credits -- Yalta, "in better health FDR might have held out longer, but I can't believe that it would have made a great difference" -- From Yalta to warm springs -- Truman takes charge -- Japan surrenders -- Farewell to Moscow -- "The center of power is in Washington." Subjects; Harriman, W. Averell (William Averell) (1891-1986). Churchill, Winston (1874-1965). Stalin, Joseph (1879-1953). World War, 1939-1945. Diplomatic history. Statesmen. Biography. Memoir. United States. Foreign relations. 1933-1945. 20th century. Illustrated. Plates. Personal narratives, American. Diplomacy. 1 Kg. …

First Edition. Near fine cloth copy in a very good if slightly edge-nicked and dust-toned dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description; xii, 595 pages, 8 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents; All aid to Britain, short of war -- How to be "something and somebody" -- "The British can hold out but they cannot win alone" -- Red wolves in the Kremlin -- Pearl Harbor: "at least there is a future now" -- No end of defeats -- To Moscow again, with Churchill -- "I prefer a comfortable oasis to the raft at Tilsit" -- Interlude at sea -- Farewell to London -- "I have come as a friend" -- Teheran, "friends in fact, in spirit and in purpose" -- "The history of war has never witnessed such a grandiose operation" -- Poland, the touchstone -- Warsaw, the doomed uprising -- Molotov's "unconventional request" for postwar credits -- Yalta, "in better health FDR might have held out longer, but I can't believe that it would have made a great difference" -- From Yalta to warm springs -- Truman takes charge -- Japan surrenders -- Farewell to Moscow -- "The center of power is in Washington." Subjects; Harriman, W. Averell (William Averell) (1891-1986). Churchill, Winston (1874-1965). Stalin, Joseph (1879-1953). World War, 1939-1945. Diplomatic history. Statesmen. Biography. Memoir. United States. Foreign relations. 1933-1945. 20th century. Illustrated. Plates. Personal narratives, American. Diplomacy. 1 Kg. …

Later printing (per publisher's lack of edition/printing statement upon copyright page) INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. xx, 218 pages. Hardcover: H 21.25cm x L 14.25cm. White dust jacket rubbed and soiled; nicks and short tears at top edges; front flap is not price-clipped. Maroon cloth with vibrant silver stamping to spine. Deckle fore-edge. Toning along endpaper gutters. Author's four-line black felt-tip ink inscription "For Beatrice McConnell | With thanks + best wishes | to a good Democrat. | Averell Harriman" upon the front free endpaper; interior pages are otherwise clean. Binding retains some crispness. Laid-in at front endpaper is yellow card of the Woman's National Democratic Club with inscribee's handwritten name so evidently the club was the facilitator of Harriman's inscription. Acquired from a Tupelo, Mississippi estate with no further provenance known.…

Leatherbound. Condition: NEW. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Reprinted from 1951 edition. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set and contains approximately 12 pages. IF YOU WISH TO ORDER PARTICULAR VOLUME OR ALL THE VOLUMES YOU CAN CONTACT US. Resized as per current standards. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Language: English.…