Cigar Weekly

Coward On The Beach by James Delingpole Bloomsbury £ 7.99 . £7.99 inc p& p ( 0845 155 0713)

Delingpole's hugely enjoyable wartime romp begins with Dick Coward, his eponymous hero, preparing to storm ashore with his commando unit on D-Day. Dick is very far from being your average war hero. His father, you see, is a retired general who has announced he will leave his grand estate to whichever of his sons has the 'best' war. And if there's one thing Dick dislikes more than Nazis, it's his cocky and irritatingly heroic little brother..

Churchill's Cigar by Stephen McGinty Pan £ 7.99 . £7.99 inc p& p ( 0845 155 0713)

These days smoking is about as socially acceptable as child abuse, but where would we have been in the dark days of 1940 without the comforting glow of Churchill's cigar? It's sobering to think the teetotal, non-smoking vegetarian Hitler would have been more at home with today's political correctness than his nicotine-stained nemesis. McGinty's ingenious little book reveals the lengths Churchill's admirers went to in order to keep him in Havanas..