{"product_id":"secondhand-history-military-bargain-book-box-sp4076","title":"Secondhand History \u0026 Military Bargain Book Box SP4076","description":"\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSecondhand History \u0026amp; Military Bargain Book Box SP4076\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eTwenty books spanning ancient history, WWII, military history, classical civilisation and modern political biography. From the Greeks and Romans to the Dambusters, from Napoleon's Waterloo to the streets of eighteenth-century Britain — rich, varied history reading that rewards both browsing and cover-to-cover reading.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003col dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare — Damien Lewis — Churchill's secret army of saboteurs, now a major film. A gripping account of the SOE's most audacious missions.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Emperor — Ryszard Kapuściński — A masterpiece of literary journalism: the final days of Haile Selassie's Ethiopian court, reconstructed through the testimonies of those who served him.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA Short History of England — Simon Jenkins — One of Britain's foremost journalists surveys English history from the Celts to the present in an accessible, opinionated and highly readable account.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDestiny in the Desert — Jonathan Dimbleby — The road to El Alamein and the battle that turned the tide of the Second World War in North Africa. Authoritative and gripping.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWealth of Nations — Adam Smith — The founding text of modern economics, still astonishingly readable and relevant nearly 250 years after publication.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMilitary Anecdotes — Max Hastings — The distinguished military historian gathers the best stories from centuries of warfare — funny, strange, illuminating and sometimes deeply moving.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eEarly Greek Philosophy — Oxford Book — A scholarly anthology of the pre-Socratic philosophers at the very origins of Western thought: Thales, Heraclitus, Anaximander and others.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSAS Great Escapes Three — Damien Lewis — True escape stories from SAS operatives in the Second World War. Tense, astonishing and brilliantly told.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eShort History of the Anglo-Saxons — Giles Morgan — A thorough account of the Anglo-Saxon world, from the end of Roman Britain to the Norman Conquest.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCities That Shaped the Ancient World — John Julius Norwich — Fourteen great cities of antiquity — Babylon, Carthage, Athens, Rome — examined by the eminent historian.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Greeks — H.D.F. Kitto — The classic introduction to ancient Greek civilisation: who the Greeks were, how they lived and why they still matter. Authoritative and beautifully written.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWaterloo — Bernard Cornwell — The most famous battle in history reconstructed across four extraordinary days. Vivid, forensic and utterly compelling.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWriting on the Wall — Madeleine Pelling — Graffiti and rebellion in eighteenth-century Britain, from political slogans to bawdy verse. A fresh and original piece of social history.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Eitingons — Mary-Kay Wilmers — A deeply researched family history spanning a century of upheaval: the Eitingons were traders, Bolsheviks, NKVD assassins and psychoanalysts.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Accidental Soldier — Owain Mulligan — Dispatches from quite near the front line: a wry, observational memoir from a journalist embedded with troops.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eInto Unknown Skies — David R. Randall — The extraordinary story of an unlikely team's first flight around the world in 1924. Vivid adventure writing from the author of Dreamland.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Dialogues of Plato — Plato's great philosophical conversations — the Symposium, the Republic, the Phaedo — in an accessible introductory edition.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Early History of Rome — Livy (Penguin Classics) — Livy's legendary account of Rome's founding, from Romulus and Remus through the early Republic. Foundational history as literature.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Spark That Lit the Revolution — Robert Henderson — Lenin in London and the politics that changed the world. A compelling account of the years that made Lenin into Lenin.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Dambusters Raid — John Sweetman — The definitive account of Operation Chastise, the daring 1943 bombing raid on the Ruhr dams. 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