{"product_id":"secondhand-military-fiction-history-bargain-book-box-sp2857","title":"Secondhand Military Fiction \u0026 History Bargain Book Box SP2857","description":"\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSecondhand Military Fiction \u0026amp; History Bargain Book Box SP2857\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003eTwenty books of wartime action and military history — naval battles, the Dunkirk evacuation, the Blitz, the Battle of Britain, Colditz, Narvik, Taranto — told through gripping fiction from Alistair MacLean, C.S. Forester, Len Deighton, and J.E. Macdonnell alongside Richard Hillary's classic memoir and vivid non-fiction accounts. A box that puts you in the thick of it.\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\"\u003eBattle Line — J.E. Macdonnell — One of Macdonnell's classic naval war novels, following the crew of a fighting ship through the brutal realities of sea warfare in the Pacific theatre.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eSurface Raider — F.L. Farrell — A naval thriller tracking the cat-and-mouse pursuit of a German surface raider preying on Allied shipping — tense action from the shadow war of the Atlantic.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eThe Sands of Dunkirk — Richard Collier — Collier's storm-raising account of the evacuation, drawing on survivor testimonies to lay bare the chaos, courage, and near-catastrophe of Operation Dynamo.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eCoventry Code — R. Page Jones and Evonne Old — A wartime thriller in which Britain's spymasters race to capture a Nazi pilot who holds a secret that could win the war for Germany — fast-paced and richly atmospheric.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eCome Die with Me — J.E. Macdonnell — Another entry in Macdonnell's prolific naval war series, delivering the blend of seafaring action and character that made him one of Australia's most read popular novelists.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eThe Guns of Navarone — Alistair MacLean — MacLean's most celebrated thriller, in which a small Allied commando team must destroy an impregnable German gun emplacement threatening the Royal Navy — one of the definitive wartime adventure novels.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eStorm Force to Narvik — Alexander Fullerton — A naval thriller set during the 1940 Norwegian campaign, following a destroyer crew through the ferocious fighting in the fjords around Narvik.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eThe Big Pick-Up — Elleston Trevor — Trevor's classic Dunkirk novel, following soldiers and civilians caught up in the chaos of the evacuation — one of the finest fictional treatments of the event.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eColditz: The Latter Days — P.R. Reid, M.B.E., M.C. — Reid's account of the closing months of the famous prisoner-of-war castle, completing the dramatic final chapter of the war's most celebrated escape narrative.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eBlitzkrieg: From the Rise of Hitler to the Fall of Dunkirk — Len Deighton — Deighton's masterly account of the German military machine's early triumphs, tracing the decisions that led to the fall of France in just six weeks.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eVietnam: Ground Zero — The Iron Triangle — Eric Helm — A Vietnam War thriller following a US Special Forces unit into the Viet Cong stronghold northwest of Saigon — intense, ground-level combat fiction from one of the most popular series in the genre.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eWar Story — Derek Robinson — A First World War RFC novel in which a pilot's survival owes more to luck than skill — darkly comic and unsparing about the waste of young men in aerial warfare.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eThe Good Shepherd — C.S. Forester — Forester's taut, psychologically intense novel following a destroyer escort commander through a desperate Atlantic crossing, hunting U-boats while fighting exhaustion — among the finest naval fiction ever written.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eOperation Chariot — Duncan Harding — A novel based on the audacious 1942 St Nazaire Raid, in which a lone destroyer was sent to destroy the only dry dock capable of servicing the Tirpitz — one of the war's most daring operations.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eGrey Gladiator — George Johnston — Part of the Australia at War series from the author of My Brother Jack, drawing on Johnston's war correspondent experience to tell the story of Australian military service through dramatic personal narratives.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eThe Last Enemy — Richard Hillary — The classic memoir of a Spitfire pilot shot down and burned over the Channel during the Battle of Britain — one of the most powerful and beautifully written books to come out of the Second World War.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eBattle of Britain — Leonard Mosley — The companion to Harry Saltzman's epic film, combining the dramatic story of the 1940 air campaign with sixteen pages of full-colour photographs — a vivid account of the summer that saved Britain.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eHell Will Not Wait — John Crawford — A wartime novel written with the authority of direct experience, exploring the limits of courage and endurance under fire.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eGoshawk Squadron — Derek Robinson — Robinson's controversial and celebrated First World War novel, following an RFC squadron commander who trains his pilots for survival rather than chivalry — a bracingly unsentimental account of aerial combat and a classic of the genre.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eTaranto — Don Newton and A. Cecil Hampshire — The story of the Fleet Air Arm's night attack on the Italian fleet in November 1940, in which a handful of Swordfish biplanes changed the balance of naval power in the Mediterranean in a single raid.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48970925244635,"sku":"SP2857","price":120.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/sp2857.jpg?v=1783935627","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/secondhand-military-fiction-history-bargain-book-box-sp2857","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}