Fritz and Olga Hoffmann's Sovereignty in Dispute: The Falklands-Malvinas, 1493-1982 provides an interesting, encyclopedic review of the islands' history, especially as it concerns the age-old British/Argentine dispute over sovereignty. Wayne S Smith's Toward Resolution? The Falklands/Malvinas Dispute is another voice in the matter.The Battle for the Falklands is a cool assessment of the politics and strategy of the 1982 war by Max Hastings and Simon Jenkins. If that doesn't quench your thirst for the nitty-gritty details, try One Hundred Days: Memoirs of the Falklands Battle Group Commander by Sandy Woodward and Patrick Robinson. (If you're still interested, there are dozens of other books written about the conflict. Choose a perspective and take your pick.)Pierre Boulle (author of Planet of the Apes and Bridge Over the River Kwai) penned The Whale of the Victoria Cross, a novel about a British warship that mistakes a whale for a submarine during the Falklands War and then takes it as a mascot.Novelist John Langley's Avenge the Belgrano paints the picture of a group of Anglo-Argentine terrorists plotting to destroy the British submarine Conqueror in retaliation for its sinking of the Argentine cruiser General Belgrano during the war.On a less pugnacious note, Wayne Lynch's Penguins of the World is that rare coffee-table book that's both interesting and informative as well as being full of pretty pictures.