Secondhand Historical & Action Fiction Bargain Book Box SP4126

Secondhand Historical & Action Fiction Bargain Book Box SP4126

Twenty historical and action novels, half hardback: Wilbur Smith’s Nemesis, Conn Iggulden’s Conqueror, two Simon Scarrows, two Dan Joneses, Bernard Cornwell’s Death of Kings, Black Hawk Down, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, A Farewell to Arms, Crichton’s Eaters of the Dead, Cussler’s Golden Buddha, David Gibbins, Rupert Thomson, László Krasznahorkai’s Herscht 07769, and three Australian war novels.

1. Nemesis — Wilbur Smith with Tom Harper — The French Revolution and a quest for revenge across continents. A fight for honour, a quest for revenge, says the jacket. Hardback.
2. Conqueror — Conn Iggulden — Kublai Khan, warrior, scholar, brother, takes China. The fifth and last of the Khan novels; Iggulden at his biggest scale. Hardback.
3. The Legion — Simon Scarrow — Macro and Cato in Egypt, hunting a renegade gladiator who’s raiding the Nile. Eagles of the Empire book ten.
4. Lion Hearts — Dan Jones — Richard the Lionheart’s crusade, through the eyes of Essex Dogs’ survivors. Unforgettable characters, thrums with sword-swinging energy, says Simon Sebag Montefiore. Hardback.
5. The Shadow of War — Stewart Binns — The first of the Great War series: five families from across Britain in 1914. Hardback.
6. The Snow Tiger — Desmond Bagley — An avalanche in a New Zealand mining town and the inquiry afterward. Bagley’s cleverest structure.
7. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy — John le Carré — George Smiley is brought out of retirement to find a mole at the top of the Circus. The book that made the Cold War a chess game; a literary master for a generation, says the Observer. Penguin.
8. Soldier Boy — Anthony Hill — Jim Martin, who enlisted at fourteen and died at Gallipoli at fourteen. The true story of the youngest Anzac. Penguin.
9. Essex Dogs — Dan Jones — Ten men in Edward III’s army at Crécy, 1346, told from the mud. The historian’s first novel; brilliant, reminds me of Cornwell at his best, says Conn Iggulden.
10. The Honour of Rome — Simon Scarrow — Roman Britannia is a dangerous place for a soldier: Macro and Cato against the Brigantes. Eagles of the Empire book twenty.
11. The Water Diviner — Andrew Anastasios & Meaghan Wilson-Anastasios — An Australian farmer goes to Gallipoli in 1919 to find his three sons’ bodies. The novel of the Russell Crowe film.
12. How to Make a Bomb — Rupert Thomson — A Norwegian academic has a breakdown on a train and walks out of his life. Exceptional, says the Financial Times; subversive, says the Guardian. Hardback.
13. Soldiers in the Mist — G.D. Kilworth — Sergeant Jack Crossman in the Crimea: Inkerman, the mist, and the Russians. Kilworth’s Crossman series, book three.
14. Herscht 07769 — László Krasznahorkai — A young German man writes to Angela Merkel about the end of the world, in a single sentence four hundred pages long. The 2025 Nobel laureate. Hardback.
15. The Mask of Troy — David Gibbins — Jack Howard dives for the gold of Troy and finds a Nazi secret. What do you get if you cross Indiana Jones with Dan Brown? Answer: David Gibbins, says the Mirror.
16. Death of Kings — Bernard Cornwell — Uhtred and the dying King Alfred, and the succession that could break Wessex. The Last Kingdom book six.
17. A Farewell to Arms — Ernest Hemingway — Frederic Henry, an American ambulance driver on the Italian front, and Catherine Barkley. The retreat from Caporetto and the ending in the rain. Arrow.
18. Eaters of the Dead — Michael Crichton — Ibn Fadlan, a tenth-century Arab, travels with the Vikings to fight the mist-monsters. Beowulf as found manuscript; the film was The 13th Warrior.
19. Golden Buddha — Clive Cussler & Craig Dirgo — The first Oregon Files: a mercenary ship, a golden Buddha and the Dalai Lama.
20. Black Hawk Down — Mark Bowden — Mogadishu, 3 October 1993: eighteen American soldiers dead in a firefight that was meant to take an hour. The definitive account, and the basis for the film.