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Fire in the Lake: The Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam. By Frances Fitzgerald. London: Macmillan. 1972. 491 pp. £5.50. Hammarskjöld. By Brian Urquhart. London: The Bodley Head. 1973. 630 pp. £6.00. Mezhdunarodnye konflikty (International Conflicts). Ed. V. V. Zhurkin and E. M. Primakov. Moscow: Izdatel'stvo ‘Mezhdunarodnye otnosheniia’. 1972. 240 pp. 91 Kps. European Defence Industries: National and International Implications. By Mary Kaldor. University of Sussex: Institute for the Study of International Organization. First series, no. 8. 1972. 76 pp. £0.75. S2.00. Weapons Technology and Arms Control. By W. F. Biddle. London: Pall Mall. 1973. 355 pp. £8.50. Security, Order, and the Bomb: Nuclear Weapons in the Politics and Defence Planning of Non‐Nuclear Weapon States. Ed. Johan J⊘rgen Hoist. Oslo. Universitetsforlaget. 1972. 208 pp. Nkr. 48.00. S8.00. Napalm and Incendiary Weapons: SIPRI Interim Report. Stockholm: Stockholm International Peace Research Institute. 1972. 125 pp. No price quoted. Report of the UN Secretary‐General on Napalm and Other Incendiary Weapons and all Aspects of their Possible Use. New York and Geneva: United Nations (A/8803 and Corr 1, 9 October 1972. Sales no. E 73.1.73) £0.66 and $1.50. A Seat at the Table. The Struggle for Disarmament. By Lt.‐Gen. E. L. M. Burns. Toronto/Vancouver. Clarke, Irwin & Company Limited. 1972. 268 pp. $6.75. The Military and Political Power in China in the 1970s. Ed. William W. Whitson. New York and London: Praeger Publishers. 1972. 390 pp. £8.50. China as a Nuclear Power in World Politics. By Leo Yueh‐Yun Liu. London and Basingstoke: The Macmillan Press. 1972. 125 pp. £2.50. Canadian Defence Priorities : A Question of Relevance. By Colin S. Gray. Toronto/Vancouver. Clark, Irwin. 1972. 293 pp. $9.50. The Security of Western Europe ‐ Towards a Common Defence Policy. By Bernard Burrows and Christopher Irwin. London: Charles Knight. 1972. 189 pp. £3.00.