{"product_id":"secondhand-history-war-adventure-bargain-book-box-sp2917","title":"Secondhand History, War \u0026 Adventure Bargain Book Box SP2917","description":"\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSecondhand History, War \u0026amp; Adventure Bargain Book Box SP2917\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003eEighteen books on conflict across two centuries — from the Civil War's bloodiest afternoon and Imperial Germany's secret sabotage operations in New York to the diaries of a French peasant through the Nazi occupation, first-hand Gulf War accounts, and Alistair Horne's portrait of Montgomery in 1944-45. Also here: Monturiol's Dream, the remarkable story of the man who built the world's first engine-powered submarine and wanted it to free coral divers.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003col dir=\"ltr\" 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 print:block print:space-y-1\"\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003ePrivate: Bradley Manning, WikiLeaks, and the Biggest Exposure of Official Secrets in American History — Denver Nicks — The story of the Army intelligence analyst who leaked the largest cache of classified documents in American history: his background, the leaks, the detention, and the questions raised about what governments are entitled to conceal.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eSabotage at Black Tom: Imperial Germany's Secret War in America 1914-1917 — Jules Witcover — In 1916, German agents blew up the munitions depot on Black Tom Island in New York Harbor — the largest explosion in American history to that point. Witcover reconstructs the spy network behind it.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eNot War But Murder: Cold Harbor 1864 — Ernest B. Furguson — Grant ordered a frontal assault on Lee's entrenched positions on June 3, 1864; in under an hour, seven thousand Union soldiers were killed or wounded. The definitive account of the worst single hour of the Civil War.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eMarching to Captivity: The War Diaries of a French Peasant 1939-45 — Gustave Folcher, trans. Christopher Hill — Folcher was conscripted, captured, and spent the years of the German occupation as a prisoner of war. His diaries are one of the most vivid first-hand accounts of the French experience of the war.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eGulf War One: Real Voices from the Front Line — Hugh McManners — First-hand accounts from soldiers, sailors, and airmen of the 1991 Gulf War: the desert build-up, the hundred-hour ground war, and what modern warfare actually looks and feels like from inside it.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003ePicking Up the Reins: America, Britain and the Postwar World — Norman Moss — The transfer of global leadership from Britain to America in the years between 1945 and the early Cold War: the decisions made at Potsdam, Bretton Woods, and in the ruins of the wartime alliance.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eMonty: The Lonely Leader, 1944-1945 — Alistair Horne with David Montgomery — The final phase of Montgomery's war: from D-Day to the Rhine crossing, the Market Garden disaster, and the sustained tensions with Eisenhower and Patton that made him the most controversial Allied commander of the war.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eThe Civil War in Popular Culture: A Reusable Past — Jim Cullen — How Americans have used the Civil War — in film, fiction, music, and television — to argue about race, region, and national identity from Birth of a Nation to Ken Burns.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eMonturiol's Dream: The Extraordinary Story of the Submarine Inventor Who Wanted to Save the World — Matthew Stewart — Narcís Monturiol built the world's first steam-powered submarine in 1860s Barcelona — not to wage war, but to free the coral divers of the Mediterranean from drowning. One of the strangest and most affecting stories in the history of invention.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eWorld War II: Beyond the Battlefield — (anthology) — Five accounts of the war's margins gathered in one volume: Under an English Heaven, The Bridge on the River Kwai, Street Boys, The Wooden Horse, and The Secrets of D-Day.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eCommander in Chief: Franklin Delano Roosevelt, His Lieutenants and Their War — Eric Larrabee — Roosevelt as war commander: his working relationships with Marshall, Eisenhower, MacArthur, King, and Nimitz, and the strategic decisions behind each alliance and each front.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eJourneying Boy: The Diaries of the Young Benjamin Britten 1928-1938 — ed. John Evans — Britten's diaries from his schooldays through his early career as a composer — the decade in which he became the most important British composer of his generation, watching Europe slide toward war.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eThe Greatest Story Ever Sold — Frank Rich — A chronicle of how the Bush administration marketed the Iraq War through image management, selective intelligence, and a media culture that forgot to ask questions. Frank Rich as political journalist at his most forensic.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eDark Noon: The Final Voyage of the Fishing Boat \"Pelican\" — Tom Clavin — In August 1951, the charter fishing boat Pelican went down off Long Island with forty-five passengers; nineteen survived. Clavin reconstructs the voyage, the storm, and the decisions that led to one of the worst peacetime maritime disasters in American history.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eBlood, Sweat and Tears: Australia's WWII Remembered — Margaret Geddes — First-hand accounts of the Australian experience of the Second World War from veterans and civilians across all theatres — the Pacific, the Middle East, and the home front.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eThe Irrepressible Churchill — compiled by Kay Halle — Churchill through his own words and the words of those who knew him: the speeches, the memos, the table talk, and the anecdotes that capture both the public orator and the private man.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eEchoes from Forgotten Wars — Ronald McKie — McKie covered Asian conflicts as a journalist and this book records the campaigns that left no monuments — the smaller wars that killed their share of people and were then quietly set aside by history.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eSparring with Charlie: Motorbiking Down the Ho Chi Minh Trail — Christopher Hunt — Hunt rides from Hanoi to Saigon along the former supply route, talking to veterans on both sides, former Viet Cong, and the farmers and traders who have replaced the soldiers on the trail.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49060780441819,"sku":"SP2917","price":110.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/sp2917.jpg?v=1785814662","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/secondhand-history-war-adventure-bargain-book-box-sp2917","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}