{"product_id":"2026100007423-secondhand-zaharoff-the-armaments-king","title":"Zaharoff The Armaments King","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Good\u003cbr\u003eJacket: N\/A\u003cbr\u003ePages: Good\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFew figures in modern history wielded as much shadowy power as Basil Zaharoff — arms dealer, spy, and billionaire manipulator whose influence stretched across the thrones and battlefields of Europe. Robert Neumann's riveting biography chronicles the extraordinary life of this enigmatic Greek-born magnate, who built a vast empire supplying weapons to warring nations on both sides of conflicts, accumulating immense wealth and political leverage in an age of imperial ambition and industrial warfare. From the back alleys of Constantinople to the gilded corridors of European power, Neumann traces how one man turned the business of death into an art form, shaping the outcomes of wars and elections alike with ruthless precision.\n\nNeumann, himself a distinguished Austrian novelist and biographer, brings a sharp literary eye and unflinching moral intelligence to this portrait of greed, power, and moral ambiguity. Writing with journalistic rigour and novelistic flair, he presents Zaharoff not merely as a villain or a genius, but as a product of an era in which nations and corporations were equally complicit in the machinery of global conflict. A work of profound historical significance, Zaharoff the Armaments King raises questions about the relationship between capital, war, and democracy that remain as urgent today as when they were first posed — leaving the reader to wonder just how much has truly changed.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49130999447771,"sku":"2026100007423-SECONDHAND","price":15.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/6d6b533a-ca69-4c02-9f59-1584ea5d3256.png?v=1786594159","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026100007423-secondhand-zaharoff-the-armaments-king","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}