Secondhand Military History Bargain Book Box SP4073

Secondhand Military History Bargain Book Box SP4073

Eighteen ex-library books covering Tobruk, Kokoda, air power, the Pacific, the Somme, bomb disposal and military intelligence — a wide-ranging collection across both world wars and beyond.

1. Tobruk: A Raid Too Far — David Jefferson — The story of the disastrous 1942 British commando raid on Tobruk, a bold plan that went catastrophically wrong and cost hundreds of lives.
2. Too Bold to Die: The Making of Australian War Heroes — Ian McPhedran — The stories of the Australian men and women awarded the Victoria Cross and other highest honours, and the extraordinary moments that earned them.
3. Tobruk — Peter FitzSimons — FitzSimons's sweeping account of the siege of Tobruk and the legendary Australian resistance that held the port against Rommel's Afrika Korps.
4. 1944: FDR and the Year That Changed History — Jay Winik — A riveting account of the pivotal year of the Second World War, centred on Franklin Roosevelt and the decisions that shaped the post-war world.
5. From the Trenches: The Best ANZAC Writing of World War One — edited by Mark Dapin — An anthology of the finest writing to emerge from the Australian experience of the First World War, from letters and diaries to journalism and literature.
6. Australia in the Great War — Philip Payton — A comprehensive overview of Australia's involvement in the First World War, from recruitment and training to the major campaigns and the peace that followed.
7. The Path of Infinite Sorrow: The Japanese on the Kokoda Track — Craig Collie & Hajime Marutani — A rare account of the Kokoda campaign told from the Japanese perspective, drawing on diaries and testimony to illuminate the other side of the jungle war.
8. MI6: A History of the Secret Intelligence Service 1909–1949 — Keith Jeffery — The authorised history of MI6, drawing on previously classified files to tell the story of Britain's foreign intelligence service through its first four decades.
9. A Century of Air Power: The Changing Face of Air Warfare 1912–2012 — Dr Dave Sloggett — A sweeping survey of a hundred years of military aviation, from the first reconnaissance flights of 1912 to the drone warfare of the twenty-first century.
10. Danger UXB: The Heroic Story of the WWII Bomb Disposal Teams — James Owen — The extraordinary story of the men and women who defused unexploded German bombs during the Blitz, working against the clock with improvised tools and extraordinary courage.
11. 1918: Winning the War, Losing the War — edited by Matthias Strohn, foreword by General Sir Nicholas Carter — A collection of essays by leading historians examining the paradox of 1918: a decisive Allied victory that nevertheless sowed the seeds of future catastrophe.
12. A Bitter Fate: Australians in Malaya and Singapore, December 1941 – February 1942 — A detailed account of the catastrophic campaign that ended with the fall of Singapore and the capture of more than 15,000 Australian troops.
13. The ANZAC Legend: A Graphic History — Dave Dye — The ANZAC story told in graphic history format, tracing the legend from Gallipoli through both world wars to its place in contemporary Australian culture.
14. The Pacific War: From Pearl Harbor to Hiroshima — editor Daniel Marston — An authoritative collection of essays covering every major theatre and turning point of the Pacific War, from the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor to the atomic bombs.
15. The Encyclopaedia of Australia's Battles — Chris Coulthard-Clark — The definitive reference work on every significant military engagement involving Australian forces, from colonial conflicts to peacekeeping operations.
16. Target Tirpitz: X-Craft, Agents and Dambusters — Patrick Bishop — The epic story of the three-year Allied campaign to destroy the Tirpitz, Hitler's most feared battleship, from midget submarines to Lancaster bombers.
17. 1942: Australia's Greatest Peril — Bob Wurth — The story of the year Australia came closest to invasion, when Japanese forces swept through the Pacific and the fall of Singapore left the continent exposed.
18. 24 Hrs at the Somme: 1 July 1916 — Robert Kershaw — A minute-by-minute reconstruction of the bloodiest day in British military history, drawn from the diaries and letters of those who were there.