{"product_id":"2026100011258-secondhand-the-battle-for-bhp","title":"The Battle For Bhp","description":"\u003cp\u003eEdition: 1st ed.,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Good\u003cbr\u003eJacket: Worn\/faded, no tears\u003cbr\u003ePages: Good\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the cutthroat world of high-stakes corporate warfare, few battles in Australian business history have rivalled the ferocity of the attempted takeover of BHP — the mighty Big Australian — and Gideon Haigh's The Battle for BHP chronicles this dramatic clash with the precision of a seasoned financial journalist. The book reconstructs the audacious 1986 bid by Robert Holmes à Court to seize control of BHP, one of Australia's most powerful and iconic industrial corporations, pulling back the curtain on boardroom manoeuvres, political pressures, and the colossal personalities that shaped the outcome.\n\nHaigh, one of Australia's foremost business writers, presents a narrative that is as much a portrait of an era as it is a corporate thriller — an era when deregulation unleashed a new breed of entrepreneurial raiders upon the establishment. His prose is incisive and authoritative, weaving together financial complexity with human drama in a way that renders even the most arcane shareholder strategies compulsively readable. For anyone seeking to understand the seismic forces that reshaped Australian capitalism in the 1980s, this account remains an indispensable and riveting document.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50573182861531,"sku":"2026100011258-SECONDHAND","price":40.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/09ba9847-76de-478d-887b-0f3fdfd393f7.png?v=1791167817","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026100011258-secondhand-the-battle-for-bhp","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}