{"product_id":"secondhand-military-history-bargain-book-box-sp4183","title":"Secondhand Military History Bargain Book Box SP4183","description":"\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSecondhand Military History Bargain Book Box SP4183\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eBeevor’s \u003cem\u003eStalingrad\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eBerlin\u003c\/em\u003e, Keegan’s \u003cem\u003eThe Face of Battle\u003c\/em\u003e, Tuchman’s \u003cem\u003eAugust 1914\u003c\/em\u003e, Macintyre’s \u003cem\u003eSAS: Rogue Heroes\u003c\/em\u003e, Hastings on the Dambusters and three Forgotten Voices oral histories. Seventeen paperbacks that cover both world wars from the top down and the trench up. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003col dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA History of Warfare — John Keegan — Keegan’s argument that war is culture, not politics, from Easter Island to the nuclear age. The big one.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Dambusters Raid — John Sweetman — The standard account of Operation Chastise: Barnes Wallis, 617 Squadron, the Möhne and the Eder, and what it did and didn’t achieve.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Battle of the Bulge — Martin King — Hitler’s last gamble in the Ardennes, told through the men in the foxholes. 75th-anniversary edition.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChastise: The Dambusters — Max Hastings — Hastings re-examines the raid and the cost in the valleys below. The sceptical companion to Sweetman.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBomber Crew — John Sweetman — Life and death in a Lancaster, from the training to the odds. The book to read before Chastise.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Face of Battle — John Keegan — Agincourt, Waterloo and the Somme, asking what it was actually like to stand in the line. The most influential military history of the last fifty years.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eForgotten Voices of the Second World War — Max Arthur — The Imperial War Museum’s sound archive turned into a book: hundreds of voices, no narrator.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eForgotten Voices of the Somme — Joshua Levine — The same method for the worst day in British Army history. Hard to put down, harder to read.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLost Voices of the Royal Navy — Max Arthur — Eyewitness accounts from Jutland to the Arctic convoys.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Marne — Georges Blond — The battle that stopped the Germans outside Paris in 1914, by a French writer who makes it a thriller.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAugust 1914 — Barbara Tuchman — The first month of the Great War and how everyone’s plans failed. Pulitzer winner; Kennedy read it during the Cuban missile crisis.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTank! 40 Hours of Battle, August 1944 — Ken Tout — A Sherman gunner’s own account of Normandy, hour by hour. The best tank memoir there is.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBerlin: The Downfall 1945 — Antony Beevor — The Red Army’s assault on the city and what happened when it got there. Beevor doesn’t look away.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eStalingrad — Antony Beevor — The battle that broke the Wehrmacht, from both sides. Samuel Johnson Prize winner, and the book that made him.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSAS: Rogue Heroes — Ben Macintyre — The authorised history of the regiment’s founding in the desert, from the secret archives. The TV series came from this.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eScram! — Harry Benson — A Royal Navy helicopter pilot’s Falklands, the junglie squadrons flying under fire with no radar. First-hand and vivid.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Imperial War Museum Book of 1914 — Malcolm Brown — The first year of the war through letters and diaries in the IWM’s collection.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50616389304539,"sku":"SP4183","price":120.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/sp4183.jpg?v=1791840342","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/secondhand-military-history-bargain-book-box-sp4183","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}