{"product_id":"secondhand-military-history-bargain-book-box-sp4074","title":"Secondhand Military History Bargain Book Box SP4074","description":"\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSecondhand Military History Bargain Book Box SP4074\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eEighteen ex-library books covering the Dambusters, the Royal Navy, the RAF's bombing campaign, D-Day, Beersheba, Darwin, the Burma-Thailand railway and more — with several Australian-specific titles alongside major works of British and global military history.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003col dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCosgrove: Portrait of a Leader — Patrick Lindsay — A portrait of Peter Cosgrove, the soldier who commanded Australian forces in East Timor and went on to become Governor-General — a study in leadership and character.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDam Busters: The Race to Smash the Dams 1943 — James Holland — A superbly researched account of Operation Chastise, the legendary Dambusters raid, by one of Britain's foremost Second World War historians.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCitizen Sailors: The Royal Navy in the Second World War — Glyn Prysor — The story of the wartime Royal Navy through the eyes of the hundreds of thousands of ordinary men who crewed its ships, drawn from letters, diaries and oral history.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Red Line: The Gripping Story of the RAF's Bloodiest Raid on Hitler's Germany — John Nichol — The story of the Nuremberg raid of March 1944, in which the RAF lost 96 bombers in a single night — the worst loss in the history of Bomber Command.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFire and Fury: The Allied Bombing of Germany 1942–1945 — Randall Hansen — A rigorous and unflinching assessment of the strategic bombing campaign against Germany, its effectiveness, its costs and its moral legacy.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLast Man Out: Surviving the Burma-Thailand Death Railway — H. Robert Charles, foreword by James D. Hornfischer — A harrowing first-hand memoir of captivity on the Death Railway, by one of its last surviving American POWs.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCherbourg 1944: The First Allied Victory in Normandy — J. Zaloga, illustrated by Steve Noon — A detailed account of the battle for Cherbourg, the first major Allied objective after D-Day and the key to supplying the breakout from Normandy.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBeersheba: A Journey Through Australia's Forgotten War — Paul Daley — Daley retraces the steps of the Australian Light Horse in the Sinai and Palestine campaign, recovering a theatre of war long overshadowed by Gallipoli and the Western Front.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Great War: The People's Story — Isobel Charman — The First World War told through the letters, diaries and personal testimony of those who lived through it on all sides, companion to the IWM documentary series.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Bitter Sea: The Struggle for Mastery in the Mediterranean 1935–1949 — Simon Ball — A sweeping account of the Mediterranean as a theatre of war and politics, from the Italian invasion of Abyssinia to the birth of Israel.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCommand and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident and the Illusion of Safety — Eric Schlosser — A Pulitzer Prize finalist examining the history of near-misses with American nuclear weapons, and the terrifying gap between the system's official safety record and reality.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAustralian War Dogs: The Story of Four-Legged Diggers — Nigel Allsopp — The story of the dogs who have served alongside Australian soldiers from the First World War to Afghanistan, in roles from messenger to mine detection.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe ANZAC Book — Written and illustrated on Gallipoli by the men of Anzac, foreword by Sir Edward Carlyon — The original 1916 collection of writing, poetry, cartoons and illustrations produced by the men on Gallipoli. A primary document of the ANZAC legend.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAll In!: Australia During the Second World War — Michael McKernan — A comprehensive social history of Australia's total war experience, from rationing and conscription to the transformation of women's work and daily life.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eD-Day in Photographs — Andrew Whitmarsh — A stunning photographic record of the D-Day landings of 6 June 1944, drawn from the Imperial War Museum's collection.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWounds \u0026amp; Scars: From Gallipoli to France, the History of the 2nd Australian Field Ambulance 1914–1919 — Ron Austin — The history of one of the AIF's medical units, following it from Gallipoli through the Western Front and tracing the human cost of the war in wounds treated and lives lost.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA War at Home: A Comprehensive Guide to the First Japanese Attacks on Darwin — Tom Lewis — The definitive account of the Japanese air attacks on Darwin in 1942, examining each raid in detail and assessing their strategic significance.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAustralians at the Great War 1914–1918 — Peter Burness — A richly illustrated overview of Australian involvement in the First World War, drawing on the collection of the Australian War Memorial.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49346337243355,"sku":"SP4074","price":110.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/sp4074.jpg?v=1790118513","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/secondhand-military-history-bargain-book-box-sp4074","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}