Reviews of Books

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Abstract Keeping the enemy guessing: Deception in World War 2 By Charles Cruickshank (OUP, Oxford 1979), £6.50, 248 pages. Reviewed by J. B. Andrews. Keeping the enemy guessing: Camouflage: A History of Concealment and Deception in War By Guy Hartcup (David & Charles, Newton Abbot, 1979), £8.50, 156 pages. Reviewed by J. B. Andrews. Medical mystery: The Murder of Rudolf Hess By Hugh Thomas (Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1979), £5.95, 224 pages. Reviewed by Hugh L'etang. Seeing through another's eyes: Strategy and Ethnocentrism By Ken Booth (Croom Helm, London, 1979), £10.50, 191 pages. Reviewed by Elizabeth Saxon. Seeing through another's eyes: International Perceptions of the Superpower Military Balance Edited by Donald C. Daniel (Praeger, New York, 1978), £13.50, 198 pages. Reviewed by Elizabeth Saxon. Hitting the target: Bomber Command By Max Hastings (Michael Joseph, London, 1979) £8.50, 400 pages. Reviewed by C. N. Foxley-Norris. A swift, sudden military offensive: Blitzkrieg: From the Rise of Hitler to the Fall of Dunkirk By Len Deighton (Jonathan Cape, London, 1979), £5.95, 319 pages. Reviewed by Anthony John Trythall. Past, present and future: In Peace and War. Interpretations of American Naval History, 1775–1978 Edited by Kenneth J. Hagan (Greenwood Press, Conn./London, 1978), £11.75, 368 pages. Reviewed by Paul M. Kennedy. Past, present and future: The Future of United States Naval Power By James A. Nathan and James K. Oliver (Indiana University Press, Indiana, 1979), $15.00, 248 pages. Reviewed by Paul M. Kennedy. Taking to the air: Carrier Pilot By Norman Hanson (Patrick Stephens, Cambridge, 1979), £4.95, 240 pages. Reviewed by Terence W. B. Shaw. The aircraft carrier eclipsed: The Rise and Fall of the Aircraft Carrier By Bernard Ireland (Marshall Cavendish, London, 1979), £6.95, 168 pages. Reviewed by B. B. Schofield. The aircraft carrier eclipsed: Ark Royal By Paul Beaver (Patrick Stephens, Cambridge, 1979), £4.95, 96 pages. Reviewed by B. B. Schofield. Grappling with problems: Numbers, Predictions and War By Colonel T. N. Dupuy (Macdonald & Jane's, London, 1979), £7.95, 244 pages. Reviewed by R. G. Coyle. Painting the picture: Cadogan's Crimea By Lieutenant Colonel Summerset J. Gough Calthorpe (Hamish Hamilton, London, 1979), £9.95, 288 pages. Reviewed by Bryan Watkins. A Soldier in the Bengal Artillery: From Recruit to Staff Sergeant By N. W. Bancroft (Ian Henry Publications, London, 1979) £4.95, 120 pages. Reviewed by T. M. Lowe. Shooting up your daddies!: Prender's Progress, A Soldier in India 1931–1947 By John Prendergast (Cassell, London, 1979), £7.95, 256 pages. Reviewed by P. H. C. Hayward. Armour then and now: The Tanks: The History of the Royal Tank Regiment 1945–1975 By Kenneth Macksey (Arms and Armour Press, London, 1979), £9.95, 304 pages. Reviewed by Bryan Watkins. Armour then and now: Modern Combat Vehicles: 1, Chieftain By George Forty (Ian Allan, London, 1979), £5.95, 28 pages. Reviewed by Bryan Watkins. The locomotive of history: Battles of World History By Walter Markov and Heinz Helmert (Edition Leipzig, 1979), £19.95, 438 pages. Reviewed by S. M. W. Hickey. Trivia and triumph: American Caesar: Douglas MacArthur 1880–1964 By William Manchester (Hutchinson, London, 1979), £9.95, 793 pages. Reviewed by John Terraine. Hero in the cold: Scott and Amundsen By Robert Huntford (Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1979), £13.95, 665 pages. Reviewed by Launcelot Fleming. From Ben Giora to IDF: The Anatomy of the Israeli Army By Gunther Rothenberg (BT Batsford, London, 1979), £6.95, 256 pages. Reviewed by J. S. Fowles. Learning from the Vietnam War: The Irony of Vietnam: The System Worked By Louis H. Gelb (The Brookings Institution, Washington, DC: available in UK from Basil Blackwell, Oxford) £12.95 or £4.95 paperback, 376 pages. Reviewed by John Waddy. Learning from the Vietnam War: Mounted Combat in Vietnam By General Donn A. Starry (Department of the Army, Washington, DC, 1978), 226 pages. Reviewed by John Waddy. Flying soldiers: Out of the Sky. A History of Airborne Warfare By Michael Hickey (Mills & Boon, London, 1979), £7.50, 288 pages. Reviewed by Napier Crookenden. Unconventional warfare: The Chindit War By Shelford Bidwell (Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1979), £6.95, 304 pages. Reviewed by Tim Carew. Force 101: Behind Japanese Lines: With the OSS in Burma By Richard Dunlop (Rand McNally, Chicago) 448 pages. Reviewed by Ronald Lewin.