{"product_id":"secondhand-military-history-bargain-book-box-sp4059","title":"Secondhand Military History Bargain Book Box SP4059","description":"\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSecondhand Military History Bargain Book Box SP4059\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eAustralian wars from the Diggers’ side — Nancy Wake’s own story, Korea, the RAN, Afghanistan and Iraq first-hand — alongside the Somme, Leningrad, Normandy and the SAS. Nineteen books, several hardbacks. These are ex-library copies, so expect the usual stamps, spine labels and protective covers.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003col dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRemembering Korea: Australians in the War of 1950–53 — George Odgers — The Australian official historian’s illustrated account, with the names of every Australian who served in it. Reference and remembrance in one.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eOn All Fronts: Australia’s World War II — Jim Haynes — North Africa, Greece, Kokoda, the home front and the POW camps, told through stories rather than strategy. Haynes writes for the general reader.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNancy Wake: The White Mouse — Nancy Wake — The Gestapo’s most-wanted woman tells it herself: the Resistance, the escape over the Pyrenees, the 500-kilometre bike ride. Blunt and funny, like her.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Diggers’ Menagerie — Barry Stone — Horses, dogs, a kangaroo and a koala: the animals Australians took to war and what became of them. Mascots, mostly; some of the stories are tough.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNo Pleasure Cruise: The Story of the Royal Australian Navy — Tom Frame — The full history of the RAN from 1901, by a naval officer turned historian. The one-volume reference.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBlood, Sweat and Steel — Peter Darman — Frontline accounts from the Gulf, Afghanistan and Iraq, mostly British and Australian. Soldiers’ own words, lightly edited.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBlitzkrieg: The Unpublished Photographs 1939–1942 — Ian Baxter — German soldiers’ own photographs of Poland, France and North Africa, from private albums. Large-format.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSomme: Into the Breach — Hugh Sebag-Montefiore — A fresh narrative of the whole 1916 battle, with the Australians at Pozières given their due. Vivid, long, and built on unpublished letters.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRed Zone Baghdad: My War in Iraq — Colonel Marcus Fielding — An Australian Army officer’s year embedded in the US command in Baghdad, 2008–09. Rare first-hand Australian Iraq account.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSpoken from the Front: Real Heroes from the Battlefields of Afghanistan — ed. Andy McNab — British soldiers’ interviews from Helmand, compiled by the SAS author. Unvarnished.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBloody Victory: The Sacrifice on the Somme — William Philpott — The revisionist case that the Somme was a necessary, and in the end successful, battle. Academic but readable; won the Templer Medal.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Normandy Nobodies — Geoff Boel — An Australian unit’s own account of wheeling and dealing its way through the invasion. Scarce; local history for the collector.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe New Middle East: The World After the Arab Spring — Paul Danahar — The BBC’s Middle East bureau chief on Egypt, Libya, Syria and Israel after 2011. Updated edition.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLeningrad: Siege and Symphony — Brian Moynahan — The 900-day siege told around the writing and performance of Shostakovich’s Seventh in the starving city. One of the great war narratives.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLetters from the Front — Dorothy Gilding — Australian soldiers’ letters home from the First World War, collected and annotated. Gold Collection edition.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSoldiers Without Borders: Beyond the SAS — Ian McPhedran — What Australian special forces veterans do next: private security, Iraq, Africa. The Amazing SAS author on the afterlife of the regiment.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Crooked Mirror: A Memoir of Polish-Jewish Reconciliation — Louise Steinman — An American woman returns to her family’s Polish town and finds the people who remember. Quiet, careful, and not what she expected.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50616712036571,"sku":"SP4059","price":110.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/sp4059.jpg?v=1791844678","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/secondhand-military-history-bargain-book-box-sp4059","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}