Secondhand Military History Bargain Book Box SP2990

Secondhand Military History Bargain Book Box SP2990

Twelve books of Australian and world military history — the Anzac legend, prisoners of war, Gallipoli, the Second World War, Arnhem, the Burma Railway, and Australia's little-known role in the Russian Civil War. All ex-library copies in good condition with the usual library markings.

1. Stories of Love & War — Rebecca Britt — Drawn from the Australian War Memorial collection: the letters, diaries, and personal documents that tell the human story behind the military record.
2. Stolen Years: Australian Prisoners of War — The stories of Australian POWs across the wars: the camps, the captivity, and the long road home.
3. Images of War: Blitzkrieg in the West — Ian Baxter — Rare photographs from wartime archives documenting the German campaigns in France, Belgium, and the Low Countries in 1940.
4. The Spirit of Gallipoli: The Birth of the Anzac Legend — Patrick Lindsay — The campaign that forged the ANZAC identity: the landings, the battles, and the moment Australia became a nation.
5. The Second World War: A Military History — Gordon Corrigan — A combative, persuasive, and eminently readable one-volume military history from the author of Mud, Blood and Poppycock.
6. Great Anzac Stories: The Men and Women Who Created the Digger Legend — Graham Seal — The stories, anecdotes, and folk traditions that built the Anzac myth from the ground up: the humour, the mateship, and the bloody-mindedness.
7. In the Footsteps of Private Lynch — Will Davies — Retracing Australia's role in the First World War from the trenches of Somme mud to the wider war on the Western Front.
8. Survivor on the River Kwai — Reg Twigg — Twigg's firsthand account of captivity on the Burma-Thailand Railway: the work, the disease, the guards, and survival against all probability.
9. The Secrets of the Anzacs: The Untold Story of Venereal Disease in the Australian Army 1914–1919 — Raden Dunbar — The hidden history of the AIF's most serious medical problem and what the official records concealed.
10. The Promise: Three Wars, Two Mates — Jamie Zimmermann — The story of an extraordinary friendship forged across three conflicts and the promise that held it together.
11. Surgeon at Arms: Parachuting into Arnhem with the First Airbornes — Lipmann Kessel — A British Army surgeon's account of Operation Market Garden: the parachute drop, the battle, and captivity.
12. The Diggers Who Signed On for More: Australia's Part in the Russian Wars of Intervention, 1918–1919 — Bruce Muirden — The largely forgotten story of Australian soldiers who volunteered to fight the Bolsheviks after the Armistice.