Secondhand Military History Bargain Book Box SP2989

Secondhand Military History Bargain Book Box SP2989

Eleven military history titles covering two world wars, Vietnam, Afghanistan, the Burma Railway, and the secret origins of the First World War. All books are ex-library copies in good condition with the usual library markings.

1. Operation Mincemeat — Ben Macintyre — The extraordinary true story of how British intelligence used a dead man carrying fake documents to deceive the Nazis about the Allied invasion of Sicily. One of the great wartime deception operations.
2. The Men of the Line: Stories of the Thai-Burma Railway Survivors — Pattie Wright — Firsthand accounts from Australian survivors of the Burma-Thailand Railway: the forced labour, the death marches, and the bonds forged in captivity.
3. The Nashos' War: Australia's National Servicemen and Vietnam — Mark Dapin — The story of Australia's national servicemen in Vietnam: conscripted, often unwilling, and fighting a war that divided the country that sent them.
4. Our Friend the Enemy: A Detailed Account of Anzac from Both Sides of the Wire — David W. Cameron — The Gallipoli campaign as experienced by both the Anzacs and the Ottoman forces who faced them across the wire.
5. Victoria at War 1914–1918 — Michael McKernan — The home front in Victoria during the Great War: recruitment, grief, industrial conflict, and the transformation of Australian society.
6. Helmand Assault — Ewen Southby-Tailyour — The inside account of 3 Commando Brigade's operations in Helmand province, Afghanistan — where the Taliban least expected them. Sunday Times bestselling author.
7. Hidden History: The Secret Origins of the First World War — Gerry Docherty & Jim Macgregor — A revisionist account arguing that a secret cabal of powerful men in Britain engineered the conditions for the First World War.
8. Our Great Hearted Men: The Australian Corps and the 100 Days — Peter Brune — The Australian Corps's decisive contribution to the Hundred Days Offensive of 1918: Hamel, Amiens, Mont St Quentin, Péronne, and the Hindenburg Line.
9. The Ghosts of Roebuck Bay: The 1942 Attack on Broome and Its Tragic Aftermath — Ian W. Shaw — The Japanese attack on Broome in February 1942, when flying boats packed with refugees were destroyed on the water: a largely forgotten chapter of Australia's Pacific War.
10. Victoria's Cross: The Untold Story of Britain's Highest Award for Bravery — Gary Mead — The history of the VC from its creation in 1856: the politics, the criteria, and the extraordinary acts of courage it commemorates.
11. Operation Dark Heart: Spycraft and Special Ops on the Frontlines of Afghanistan — Lt. Col. Anthony Shaffer — A US Army intelligence officer's account of covert operations in Afghanistan — and the Pentagon's subsequent attempt to suppress the book.