Secondhand Military History Bargain Book Box SP4298

Secondhand Military History Bargain Book Box SP4298

Nine large-format military histories, most hardback with jackets: The Allied Bomber War, Air War Pacific, Gordon Smith’s The War at Sea, Fighter Missions, an illustrated World War One, World War II in Numbers, 101 Great Warships, America in Revolution and the Chief of Army’s Korean War retrospective. A photo-heavy shelf with an Australian edge.

1. The Allied Bomber War 1939–45 — Maurice Harvey — Bomber Command and the Eighth Air Force, from the early daylight disasters to Dresden. Harvey was an RAF officer, and he’s fair to both sides of the argument.
2. Air War Pacific: The Fight for Supremacy in the Far East 1937 to 1945 — Christy Campbell — From the China Incident to the Zero’s decline, with the carriers, the Marianas turkey shoot and the B-29s. Big-format and well mapped.
3. The War at Sea: Royal & Dominion Navy Actions in World War 2 — Gordon Smith — Every action, month by month, with the Australian and Canadian ships given their due. The reference the naval enthusiasts keep.
4. Fighter Missions — Bill Gunston & Lindsay Peacock — Mission-by-mission reports from the pilot’s eye view: scramble, intercept, dogfight. Cold War jets in the painted-cover style of the 1980s.
5. World War One: An Illustrated History — Ian Westwell — The war chronologically with 350 photographs and maps, and features on every major battle on land and at sea.
6. America in Revolution — John Cantwell — The War of Independence from the Boston Massacre to Yorktown, with the statue of George III being pulled down on the cover.
7. 101 Great Warships — ed. Robert Jackson — Dreadnought to Nimitz, one page each with specifications. Browsable.
8. World War II in Numbers — Peter Doyle — An infographic guide: tonnage sunk, sorties flown, rations, casualties, laid out in charts. Fascinating and quick.
9. The Korean War 1950–53: A 50-Year Retrospective — ed. Peter Dennis & Jeffrey Grey — The Chief of Army’s Military History Conference 2000: the Australian papers on Kapyong, the air war and the armistice. Army History Unit publication, scarce.