BOOK REVIEW / PAPERBACKS: Trading with the Enemy - John Sweeney: Pan, pounds 5.99

'Inside story' of Iraqgate, the ugly and tangled tale of how Britain armed Saddam Hussein. Written with indignation (Sweeney saw for himself what Saddam had done to the Kurds), and choosing as its central image a set of smooth-faced Russian dolls, it lays into a 'culture which places commerce above common humanity'.