 | The Forgotten Soldier (Cassell Military Paperbacks) by Guy Sajer
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £1.19 Terrifying to read and hard to put down.
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 | The Thieves' Opera: The Remarkable Lives and Deaths of Jonathan Wild, Thief-taker and Jack Sheppard, House-breaker by Lucy Moore
Buy used from: £2.78 Sheppherd and Wild. These two men and Hogarthian London. Fantastic
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 | His Natural Life (English Library) by Marcus Clarke
Buy used from: £2.48 Vivd, exciting. Great characters and hatefull characters. Imagine being banished for a crime you never commited. Outstandingly good!!
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 | Captain Bligh and Mr.Christian: The Men and the Mutiny by Richard Hough
Buy new: £9.09 / Used from: £7.43 What happened on The Bounty? Interesting revelations. The slums of London or paradise in Tahiti? What would you do?
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 | The Great War for Civilisation: The Conquest of the Middle East by Robert Fisk
Buy new: £7.79 / Used from: £5.48 Duplicity in the middle east. Robert Fisks masterful account of his journalistic travels in that explosive part of the world. Big but so good.
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 | A Fortunate Life by A.B. Facey
Buy used from: £6.99 From a cattle station in the Australian outback to the battlefield of Gallipoli. An old man reflects on his life.
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 | Great Expectations (Penguin Classics) by Charles Dickens
Buy new: £4.15 / Used from: £1.65 It all begins with the escaped convict in the churchyard. A beautifull story.
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 | The Last Grain Race (Picador Books) by Eric Newby
Buy new: £5.99 You'll want to go to sea after this one. Highly amusing. Eric Newby describes his time on a four masted ship sailing from Ireland to Australia brilliantly.
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 | The Shining by Stephen King
Buy used from: £0.01 Scary, atmospheric. A family stuck in an old hotel over winter. A father going slowly mad while spirits roam the corridors. Better than the film. A must read even if you are not a King fan.
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 | The Incredible Voyage: A Personal Odyssey by Tristan Jones
Buy new: £10.49 / Used from: £6.75 Sailing from the Dead Sea to lake Titicaca and back. Tristan takes his boat down through the S.A continent and back to the sea. Makes you feel kind of useless after reading this.
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 | Papillon by Henri Charriere
Buy used from: £1.47 A stitch up, transportation to prison in French Guiana, solitary confinement, brutal fellow inmates and guards.All of it a true story. Who would have thought a bag of coconuts could be so usefull..
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 | The Fatal Shore by Robert Hughes
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £7.96 A bag of coconuts would never have got you away from this place. The early convict history of Australia from begining to end.
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 | Larousse Gastronomique: The World's Greatest Cookery Encyclopedia (Larousse) by Prosper Montagne
Buy new: £38.99 / Used from: £35.00 Food food food!! A bible of food. You can spend hours flicking through this befor making a mess in the kitchen.
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 | Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West (Arena Books) by Dee Brown
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £2.99 The end of the tribes of the great planes. sad, but never to be forgotten. The voices of the native Americans jump out at you. A particularly shameful period in US history.
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 | Flashman in the Great Game (Flashman 08) by George MacDonald Fraser
Buy new: £7.38 / Used from: £3.98 Right boys own stuff!! Big moustaches, the works. Based on true events in British history. Harry Flashman the ultimate anti-hero; coward, womaniser, liar, receiver of the VC but so damn funny.
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 | Armageddon: The Battle for Germany 1944-45 by Max Hastings
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £2.15 The destruction of europe at the end of WWII. Brilliantly written by Max Hastings; "The earth will shake when Germany leaves the scene" (Joseff Goebbles).
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 | Stalingrad by Antony Beevor
Buy used from: £2.70 An entire German army surrounded in the ruins of this Russian city. Food is running out, they have been told to fight to the last man by Hitler, no winter clothing, no hope. Outstanding.
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 | Berlin: The Downfall 1945 by Antony Beevor
Buy new: £5.28 / Used from: £1.99 The last act of WWII in europe. The Russians have reached Berlin. As good as Stalingrad. You can only imagine what it must have been like as a civilian in that city.
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 | Moby-Dick: Or, the Whale (Penguin Classics) by Herman Melville
Buy new: £5.59 / Used from: £3.45 A giant whale, an obsessed Captain. With quotes like; "From hells heart i stab at thee and for hates sake i spit my last breath at thee!" you can't go wrong.
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 | Hell Riders: The Truth About the Charge of the Light Brigade by Terry Brighton
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £1.30 I read this one in a matter of days! The Charge of the Light Brigade. You can hear the hooves. It is the little details, like riderless horses still charged the guns. A must this one.
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 | Batavia's Graveyard: The True Story Of The Mad Heretic Who Led History's Bloodiest Mutiny by Mike Dash
Buy new: £1.69 / Used from: £0.03 The horrific true story of a wrecked ship, mutiny and a deranged heretic.
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 | London: The Biography by Peter Ackroyd
Buy new: £7.49 / Used from: £5.60 The story of london. Big and heavy but a wealth of information. The history of this city comes alive. Well written.
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 | In the Heart of the Sea: The Epic True Story That Inspired "Moby Dick" by Nathaniel Philbrick
Buy new: £4.00 / Used from: £0.01 I never knew Moby Dick was based on a true story till reading this. Whaling, shipwreck and the "custom of the sea"..... cannabalism! This stuff happened!
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