 | Charlie Wilson's War: The Story of the Largest Covert Operation in History by George Crile
Buy new: £6.47 / Used from: £0.01 How one Congressman turned around US foreign policy over Afghanistan in the 1980's and helped to defeat the Soviets on the field of battle.
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 | The Strange Death of David Kelly by Norman Baker
Buy new: £7.49 / Used from: £14.99 Liberal M.P. Norman Baker provides food for thought over the David Kelly saga. Interesting and credible.
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 | The Best Book on the Market: How to Stop Worrying and Love the Free Economy by Eamonn Butler
Buy new: £8.83 / Used from: £6.79 Free enterprise works and this neat little book shows how.
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 | Squandered by David Craig
Buy new: £5.28 / Used from: £0.08 Blair and Brown have wasted all of our money!
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 | An Appeal to Reason: A Cool Look at Global Warming by Nigel Lawson
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £3.24 Man-made Global Warming theory is a load of old pants!
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 | The Life of Samuel Johnson (English Library) by James Boswell
Buy used from: £0.01 Hilarious biography of a wonderful old Tory fart. This book is still as fresh as a daisy.
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 | Scoop: A Novel About Journalists (Penguin Modern Classics) by Evelyn Waugh
Buy new: £6.42 / Used from: £2.75 Wonderful witty Waugh at his very best.
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 | Black Mischief (Twentieth Century Classics) by Evelyn Waugh
Buy used from: £0.01 More funny Evelyn Waugh stuff. A politically incorrect classic.
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 | Dixie Betrayed: How the South Really Lost the Civil War by David Eicher
Buy new: £16.99 / Used from: £10.11 The stupid, dumb, Southern Confederacy was its' own worst enemy.
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 | Mao: The Unknown Story by Jung Chang
Buy new: £16.49 / Used from: £2.62 Brilliant biography of the greatest mass murderer of the last century. Read here how he managed to kill 70 million of his own people.
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 | Sink the "Belgrano" by Mike Rossiter
Buy new: £4.61 / Used from: £0.01 The Falklands War 1982 and HMS Conqueror's mission to sink the Argentine warship Belgrano.
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 | Young Stalin by Simon Sebag Montefiore
Buy new: £5.91 / Used from: £0.01 Very fine history of Stalin's formative years. Highly recommended.
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 | William Wilberforce: The Life of the Great Anti-Slave Trade Campaigner by William Hague
Buy new: £6.96 / Used from: £2.89 Hague's worthy follow up to his William Pitt biography tells the story of a politician of iron principle.
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 | Flying High: Remembering Barry Goldwater by William Buckley
Buy used from: £1.50 Bill Buckley recalls the Goldwater Presidential campaign of 1964.
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 | John Mccain: An American Odyssey by Robert Timberg
Buy new: £8.09 / Used from: £0.01 Another great Arizonian who (sadly) didn't quite make it to the White House. Interesting book.
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 | Out of the Storm: The Life and Legacy of Martin Luther by Derek Wilson
Buy new: £17.00 / Used from: £11.65 Latest biography of the man who launched the reformation.
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 | The Last Days of Europe: Epitaph for an Old Continent by Walter Laqueur
Buy used from: £14.63 Respected liberal historian charts the worrying rise of religious extremism in Western nations.
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 | Robert Maxwell, Israel's Superspy: The Life and Murder of a Media Mogul by Gordon Thomas
Buy new: £8.06 / Used from: £4.33 Amazing, if rather implausible, account of the secret life of Robert Maxwell.
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 | Ace of Spies: The True Story of Sidney Reilly (Revealing History) by Andrew Cook
Buy new: £8.23 / Used from: £5.20 Just who was the real Sidney Reilly? Read this and find out.
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 | The Plot to Seize the White House: The Shocking True Story of the Conspiracy to Overthrow FDR by Jules Archer
Buy new: £9.01 / Used from: £6.40 When was a coup not a coup? Answer: when it involved this potty plot to topple Roosevelt in the early 1930's.
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 | China: The Truth About Its Human Rights Record by Frank Ching
Buy new: £4.99 / Used from: £0.05 Short but serious analysis of the record of today's greatest human rights abuser: Communist China.
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 | The Past is Myself by Christabel Bielenberg
Buy new: £5.98 / Used from: £0.01 One of the greatest memoirs of personal experience ever published. The story of a brave Englishwoman in Berlin during the Hitler regime and her involvement with the anti-Nazi resistance. Excellent.
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 | The Last Enemy (Battle of Britain Series) by Richard Hillary
Buy used from: £0.01 A literary Battle of Britain classic. One young pilot comes to terms with death, injury and personal grief.
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 | Soho in the Fifties by Daniel Farson
Buy used from: £23.99 Atmospheric recounting of boozy Soho life in the decade of Trad Jazz, Larry Parnes and the New Look. Learn how to drink yourself into a premature grave!
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 | The Rebel (Penguin Modern Classics) by Albert Camus
Buy new: £6.47 / Used from: £4.27 Camus turns against the Communist bloc and his former Left Bank intellectual chums. Worth a read, but slightly heavy going.
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