{"product_id":"secondhand-military-history-bargain-book-box-sp4072","title":"Secondhand Military History Bargain Book Box SP4072","description":"\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSecondhand Military History Bargain Book Box SP4072\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eEighteen ex-library books spanning the Western Front, Singapore, the Thai-Burma Railway, civilian internment, shell shock, and the home front — with a strong strand of critical and revisionist Australian military history alongside the primary accounts.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003col dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDiggers in France: Australian Soldiers on the Western Front — Richard Travers — A vivid account of the Australian experience on the Western Front, following the diggers from Gallipoli to the mud of Flanders and the Somme.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDescent into Hell: The Fall of Singapore, Pudu and Changi, the Thai-Burma Railway — Peter Brune — One of Australia's most powerful military historians on the catastrophic fall of Singapore and the suffering of Australian POWs that followed.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWhat's Wrong with Anzac? The Militarisation of Australian History — Marilyn Lake \u0026amp; Henry Reynolds — A sharp and important challenge to the centrality of military sacrifice in Australian national identity. Essential reading for anyone interested in how Australians understand their own history.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWatson's Pier — Joshua Funder — A fascinating account of the complex wartime relationship between Australia and America, told through a remarkable and little-known piece of history.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBreakdown: The Crisis of Shell Shock on the Somme, 1916 — Taylor Downing — A searing examination of the psychological destruction wrought by the Somme, and the medical and military establishment's slow reckoning with shell shock.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCarrier Attack: Darwin 1942 — Dr Tom Lewis \u0026amp; Peter Ingman — The complete guide to the Japanese carrier attack on Darwin — Australia's own Pearl Harbor — told in meticulous detail.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBroken Nation: Australians in the Great War — Joan Beaumont — A landmark work of Australian Great War history, examining not just the battles but the social and political fractures the war opened at home.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAustralia's Forgotten Prisoners: Civilians Interned by the Japanese in World War Two — Christina Twomey — The neglected story of Australian and other Allied civilians interned by Japan, and their long struggle for recognition after the war.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Battle Within: POWs in Postwar Australia — Christina Twomey — Twomey's companion study of what happened when the prisoners came home — the trauma, the silence and the long aftermath of captivity.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Barbed-Wire University: The Real Lives of Prisoners of War in the Second World War — Midge Gillies — A richly researched account of how Allied POWs created cultural and intellectual lives inside the wire — theatre, universities, sport and escape committees.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAccommodating the King's Hard Bargain: Military Detention in the Australian Army 1914–1947 — Graham Wilson — A forensic study of discipline, punishment and military justice in the Australian Army across both world wars.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBully Beef \u0026amp; Balderdash: Some Myths of the AIF Examined and Debunked — Graham Wilson — Wilson turns a sceptical eye on some of the most cherished legends of the Australian Imperial Force, with bracing results.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDigger Smith and Australia's Great War: Ordinary Name — Extraordinary Stories — Peter Stanley — Stanley recovers the stories of the many Australian servicemen named Smith, turning an ordinary name into a prism for understanding the war's human cost.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGallipoli: The New Zealand Story — Christopher Pugsley — Essential reading for anyone who wishes to understand what happened at Gallipoli in 1915, told from the New Zealand perspective by one of its foremost military historians.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAircraft-Carrying Ships of the Royal Navy — Maurice Cocker, foreword by Admiral Sir Jeremy Black — A comprehensive history of British aircraft carriers from the First World War to the modern era.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBoth Sides of the Wire: The Memoir of an Australian Officer Captured During the Great War — William Cull, edited by Aaron Pegram — A rare and vivid first-hand account of captivity in Germany during World War One, from an Australian officer's perspective.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eEmpire of Secrets: British Intelligence, the Cold War and the Twilight of Empire — Calder Walton — A rigorously researched account of how British intelligence shaped and was shaped by decolonisation, drawing on newly declassified files.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAustralia's Real Baptism of Fire — Greg Raffin — The story of an early and little-known Australian military action, recovered here in full for the first time.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49346338521307,"sku":"SP4072","price":100.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/sp4072.jpg?v=1790118777","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/secondhand-military-history-bargain-book-box-sp4072","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}