Secondhand Australian & Military History Bargain Book Box SP2987

Secondhand Australian & Military History Bargain Book Box SP2987

Fifteen military history titles with a strong Australian focus — Vietnam, the Western Front, the Pacific air war, Bomber Command, North Africa, and the home front conscription debates. All books are ex-library copies in good condition with the usual library markings.

1. Anzacs Betrayed: The 2nd D&E Platoon in Vietnam — Don Tate — The account of a D&E platoon in Vietnam whose story was suppressed for decades: the operations, the casualties, and the long fight to have their service recognised.
2. Vietnam: The Australian War (Illustrated Edition) — Paul Ham — The bestselling author of Kokoda's comprehensive illustrated history of Australia's involvement in Vietnam: the politics, the battles, and the human cost.
3. A Parting Shot: Shelling of Australia by Japanese Submarines 1942 — Barry Jones & Steven Carruthers — The largely forgotten story of Japanese submarine attacks on Sydney, Newcastle, and other Australian coastal targets in 1942.
4. Anzacs on the Western Front: The Australian War Memorial Battlefield Guide (100th Anniversary Edition) — Peter Pedersen with Chris Roberts — The definitive battlefield guide to the Australian sites on the Western Front, published for the centenary of the Great War.
5. At the Going Down of the Sun: 1941–45 Hong Kong and South/East Asia — Oliver Lindsay — The fall of Hong Kong, the campaigns in Malaya and Burma, and the long captivity of the men and women who survived them.
6. Victory at Villers-Bretonneux: Why a French Town Will Never Forget the Anzacs — Peter FitzSimons — The story of the battle that checked the German spring offensive of 1918 — and of the extraordinary bond between the town of Villers-Bretonneux and Australia that continues to this day.
7. War — Sebastian Junger — Junger's immersive account of a year spent with a US Army platoon in the Korengal Valley, Afghanistan: the fear, the boredom, the brotherhood, and what combat does to the men who survive it.
8. Germany Ascendant: The Eastern Front 1915 — Prit Buttar — The second volume in Buttar's acclaimed history of the Eastern Front: Germany's massive 1915 offensive, the Russian retreat, and the catastrophic losses on both sides.
9. Whispering Death: Australian Airmen in the Pacific War — Mark Johnston — The story of the RAAF in the Pacific: the pilots and aircrew who fought across New Guinea, the islands, and the seas between Australia and Japan.
10. Lancaster Men: The Aussie Heroes of Bomber Command — Peter Rees — The Australians who flew with RAF Bomber Command over Germany: their extraordinary courage and their catastrophic losses.
11. Bardia: Myth, Reality and the Heirs of Anzac — Craig Stockings — A revisionist account of the Battle of Bardia in January 1941: separating the legend from the operational reality of Australia's first land battle of the Second World War.
12. The Fair Dinkums: After Gallipoli, Australia Needed... — Glenn McFarlane — The story of Australia's reinvention after the Gallipoli campaign: a nation that needed new heroes, new myths, and a new identity forged in the crucible of the Western Front.
13. The Conscription Conflict and the Great War — ed. Robin Archer, Joy Damousi, Murray Grey & Sean Scalmer — Essays examining Australia's two conscription referenda of 1916 and 1917: the bitterest political conflict in the nation's history.
14. Masters and Commanders: How Roosevelt, Churchill, Marshall and Alanbrooke Won the War in the West — Andrew Roberts — The strategic partnership and fierce arguments between the four men who determined Allied strategy in the West: a group biography of the war's most consequential decisions.
15. General Peter Cosgrove: My Story — The autobiography of Australia's Chief of the Army, commander of INTERFET in East Timor, and future Governor-General: a career at the heart of the Australian military.