{"product_id":"secondhand-history-biography-bargain-book-box-sp2713","title":"Secondhand History \u0026 Biography Bargain Book Box SP2713","description":"\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSecondhand History \u0026amp; Biography Bargain Book Box — 18 Books\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eA richly varied collection spanning Jacobite spy networks to Afghan battlefields, the theft of the Mona Lisa to the founding of British intelligence, and Montgomery's grandfather to Keith Douglas, one of the finest poets to die in the Second World War. Patrick Bishop's \u003cem\u003eGround Truth\u003c\/em\u003e and Christopher Andrew's \u003cem\u003eSecret Service\u003c\/em\u003e — praised by Hugh Trevor-Roper as \"scholarly balanced and highly entertaining\" — are the standouts for military and intelligence history readers, while Geoffrey Blainey's edited \u003cem\u003eGreater Britain\u003c\/em\u003e and Jacqueline Kent's memoir add strong Australian historical interest.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003col class=\"[li_\u0026amp;]:mb-0 [li_\u0026amp;]:mt-1 [li_\u0026amp;]:gap-1 [\u0026amp;:not(:last-child)_ul]:pb-1 [\u0026amp;:not(:last-child)_ol]:pb-1 list-decimal flex flex-col gap-1 pl-8 mb-3\"\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eJacobite Spy Wars: Moles, Rogues and Treachery — Hugh Douglas.\u003c\/strong\u003e A gripping account of the espionage networks that surrounded the Jacobite cause — double agents, informers, and the shadowy figures who operated in both camps across the Stuart risings. Douglas writes accessible, well-researched popular history with a genuine feel for the period's murky human dramas.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eShiloh: The Battle That Changed the Civil War — Larry J. Daniel.\u003c\/strong\u003e The Houston Chronicle called it \"a splendid analysis in the tradition of \u003cem\u003eThe Killer Angels\u003c\/em\u003e... an excellent read.\" The Battle of Shiloh in April 1862 destroyed the illusion of a quick war and reshaped the entire conflict — Daniel reconstructs it with scholarly rigour and narrative force.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eQueen Victoria: A Portrait — Giles St Aubyn.\u003c\/strong\u003e A substantial, richly detailed biographical portrait of the monarch whose reign defined an era and whose family connections spread across every royal house in Europe. St Aubyn draws on primary sources to present Victoria as a far more complex and wilful figure than the dutiful widow of popular mythology.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIndia Uniform Nine: Secrets from Inside a Covert Customs Unit — Mark Perlstrom and Douglas Wight.\u003c\/strong\u003e A first-hand account of life inside one of Britain's most secretive law enforcement units — \"an excellent read, completely authentic\" according to an HM Customs veteran, and \"eye-opening and entertaining throughout.\" A genuinely rare insider document.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eJ.B.S.: The Life and Work of J.B.S. Haldane — Ronald Clark.\u003c\/strong\u003e Haldane was one of the twentieth century's most brilliant, eccentric, and provocative scientific minds — a geneticist and evolutionary biologist of the first rank who was also a committed communist, a magnificent writer, and one of the great English originals. Clark's biography does full justice to the man and his science.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eThe Caliban Shore: The Fate of the Grosvenor Castaways — Stephen Taylor.\u003c\/strong\u003e The \u003cem\u003eGrosvenor\u003c\/em\u003e was wrecked off the South African coast in 1782, and the story of what happened to its survivors — cast onto shores where no European had gone — is one of history's most extraordinary true narratives. Taylor writes maritime history with novelistic skill and genuine historical depth.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eThe Lost Mona Lisa: The Extraordinary True Story of the Greatest Art Theft in History — R.A. Scotti.\u003c\/strong\u003e In August 1911, Leonardo's \u003cem\u003eMona Lisa\u003c\/em\u003e was stolen from the Louvre — and the two-year investigation that followed implicated Picasso, involved Apollinaire, and exposed the extraordinary vulnerability of the world's greatest museum. Scotti reconstructs it all with the pace and detail of a thriller.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eLouis Becke — A. Grove Day.\u003c\/strong\u003e Becke was one of the great writers of the Pacific — a trader, adventurer, and storyteller who captured the nineteenth-century South Seas with a vividness no one else matched. Day's biography is the essential account of a writer who deserves far more readers than he currently has.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIn the Half Light: Reminiscences of Growing Up in Australia 1900–1970 — Jacqueline Kent.\u003c\/strong\u003e Kent is one of Australia's most accomplished biographers, and this memoir of Australian life across seven decades is both a personal document and a vivid social history. The texture of ordinary Australian experience — school, work, family, changing cities — is rendered with warmth and precision.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eKeith Douglas 1920–1944: A Biography — Desmond Graham.\u003c\/strong\u003e Douglas was killed in Normandy three days after D-Day, aged twenty-four, having written some of the finest poetry to come out of the Second World War. Graham's biography traces the short, intense life that produced \u003cem\u003eAlamein to Zem Zem\u003c\/em\u003e and poems like \"Vergissmeinnicht\" with the scholarly care such a subject demands. Essential for anyone who loves twentieth-century poetry.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eGround Truth: 3 Para — Return to Afghanistan — Patrick Bishop.\u003c\/strong\u003e Bishop is Britain's finest military writer — his \u003cem\u003e3 Para\u003c\/em\u003e was a masterpiece of combat journalism — and this follow-up account of the regiment's return to Helmand is equally gripping. Bishop writes about soldiers and the experience of combat with an authority, fairness, and humanity that sets him entirely apart.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eGreater Britain: Travellers' Tales of Early Australia \u0026amp; New Zealand — Charles Dilke Visits Her New Lands, 1866 \u0026amp; 1867\u003c\/strong\u003e — edited by Geoffrey Blainey. Blainey — one of Australia's greatest historians — edits and contextualises Charles Dilke's Victorian travel account of the antipodean colonies. An invaluable primary source for Australian and New Zealand colonial history, enriched by Blainey's incomparable historical perspective.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eMonty's Grandfather: Sir Robert Montgomery GCSI, KCB, LLD 1809–1887 — Brian Montgomery.\u003c\/strong\u003e Field Marshal Montgomery's brother traces their grandfather's career in the Indian Civil Service across the turbulent decades of the Raj — including the Indian Mutiny. A vivid and important piece of imperial biography, and an unusual window into the family background of Britain's most celebrated Second World War commander.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eWilliam Crawford Gorgas: Warrior in White — Edward F. Dolan Jr. and H.T. Silver.\u003c\/strong\u003e Gorgas was the public health officer whose mosquito eradication campaigns made the Panama Canal possible — without him, the canal could not have been built. A genuinely heroic figure whose contribution to human history is barely known, brought to life in an accessible and compelling biography.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIlliberal Liberal: Robert Lowe in New South Wales, 1842–1850 — Ruth Knight.\u003c\/strong\u003e A scholarly account of one of the most controversial figures in early Australian colonial politics — Robert Lowe, later Viscount Sherbrooke, whose years in New South Wales were marked by fierce argument, liberal principles applied with illiberal temper, and a political intelligence that found Sydney too small a stage. Essential Australian political history.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eUpsula: A Voyage of Love and Drama — Eileen Naseby.\u003c\/strong\u003e \"Written with an effortless beauty... it draws the emotional power of a carefully crafted novel\" — a narrative of adventure and passion set across the seas, combining the intimacy of memoir with the sweep of a more expansive story.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eSecret Service: The Making of the British Intelligence Community — Christopher Andrew.\u003c\/strong\u003e Hugh Trevor-Roper — himself a wartime intelligence officer of considerable distinction — called this \"scholarly balanced and highly entertaining.\" Andrew is the pre-eminent historian of the British and Western intelligence communities, and this foundational account of how MI5 and MI6 came into being is essential reading for anyone interested in espionage history.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDancing in Combat Boots: And Other Stories of American Women in World War II.\u003c\/strong\u003e A collection of first-hand accounts from American women who served in the Second World War — nurses, WACS, factory workers, intelligence officers — giving voice to experiences that official history long overlooked. The author's name is partially obscured on this copy, but the subject matter ensures it stands on its own.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48760744804571,"sku":"SP2713","price":120.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/IMG_0680.jpg?v=1778461827","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/secondhand-history-biography-bargain-book-box-sp2713","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}