Secondhand Military History Bargain Book Box SP2988

Secondhand Military History Bargain Book Box SP2988

A strong collection of fifteen military history titles covering Vietnam, Korea, Gallipoli, the Western Front, SAS operations, submarine warfare, and more — including several Australian-focused works. All books are ex-library copies in good condition with the usual library markings.

1. The Vietnam War: An Intimate History — Geoffrey C. Ward & Ken Burns — The companion volume to Ken Burns and Lynn Novick's landmark PBS documentary series: a comprehensive, deeply personal history of the conflict drawn from hundreds of voices on all sides.
2. Out in the Cold: Australia's Involvement in the Korean War — Australia's forgotten war: the ground, sea, and air campaigns of the Korean conflict and the Australian forces who fought in them.
3. The Modern Mercenary: Dog of War, or Soldier of Honour? — Peter Tickler — An examination of the private military contractor in the modern world: who they are, what they do, and where the line falls between professional soldier and mercenary.
4. Silent Killers: Submarines and Underwater Warfare — James P. Delgado — A richly illustrated history of submarine warfare from its earliest origins to the nuclear age. Foreword by Clive Cussler.
5. The Missing Years: A POW's Story from Changi to Hellfire Pass — Stu Lloyd — An Australian prisoner of war's account of captivity under the Japanese: Changi, the Burma-Thailand Railway, and survival against the odds.
6. SAS Phantoms of the Jungle: A History of the Australian Special Air Service — David Horner — The definitive history of the SASR: its formation, its operations in Borneo and Vietnam, and the culture of selection and secrecy that defines the regiment.
7. SAS Operation Storm: Nine Men Against Four Hundred in Britain's Secret War — Roger Cole & Richard Belfield — The secret SAS war in Oman in the 1970s: nine British soldiers holding a position against overwhelming odds in a conflict the British government could not officially acknowledge.
8. Sea Wolves: The Extraordinary Story of Britain's WW2 Submarines — Tim Clayton — The submariners who fought in the Mediterranean, the Atlantic, and the Far East: their extraordinary courage and their catastrophic losses.
9. Secret Army — Barry Stone — An elite force, a secret mission, a fleet of Model-T Fords in a far-flung corner of World War II: the story of a remarkable and largely forgotten operation.
10. War: What Is It Good For? The Role of Conflict in Civilisation, from Primates to Robots — Ian Morris — Stanford historian Ian Morris's sweeping argument that war, paradoxically, has been the primary driver of peace, prosperity, and civilisation across human history.
11. Shanghai Fury: Australian Heroes of Revolutionary China — Peter Thompson — The Australians who fought in China's revolutionary wars of the 1920s: soldiers of fortune, idealists, and adventurers caught in one of history's great upheavals.
12. Shattered Glory: The New Zealand Experience at Gallipoli and the Western Front — Matthew Wright — A New Zealand perspective on the Great War: the Gallipoli landings, the Western Front campaigns, and the cost paid by a small nation far from home.
13. Shoot Like a Girl: One Woman's Dramatic Fight in Afghanistan and on the Home Front — Mary Jennings Hegar — A US Air National Guard combat pilot shot down in Afghanistan, her rescue under fire, and her subsequent battle with the military over the role of women in combat.
14. The Unseen Anzac — Jeff Maynard — How the polar explorer Frank Hurley created Australia's defining photographic record of World War I — and the controversy over what he did to get the shots.
15. Shadows of Anzac: An Intimate History of Gallipoli — David W. Cameron — Cameron's close-focus history of the Gallipoli campaign: the landings, the battles, and the human experience of the peninsula.