Reviews of Books

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Abstract Man of Valour: Field Marshal Lord Gort, VC. By J. R. Colville (Collins) £3.50 Hankey: Man of Secrets, Vol. II: 1919–1931. By Stephen Roskill (Collins) £5 Denis Healey and the Policies of Power. By Bruce Reed and Geoffrey Williams (Sidgwick and Jackson) £3.50 The Great Duke, or the Invincible General. By Sir Arthur Bryant (Collins) £3.50 Napoleon. By Vincent Cronin (Collins) £3.50 I, SPY?: Gehlen: Spy of the Century. By E. H. Cookridge (Hodder and Stoughton) £3.75 Memoir: NOTES IN EVIDENCE: The Diaries of Sir Alexander Cadogan, 1938–1945. Ed. by David Dilks (Cassell) £6 Memoir: JOTTINGS IN YOUTH: Schoolboy at War: Gunner Subaltern 1914–1918. Julian Tyndale-Biscoe (Leo Cooper) £2.50 First World War: FOLIES POLITIQUES: The French and the Dardanelles. By George H. Cassar (Allen & Unwin) £4 EFFORT WITH MERIT: Arms, Men and Governments: the War Policies of Canada, 1939–1945. By C. P. Stacey (Queen's Printer: Canada) £7.50 CHANGE AND DIVISION: The Long Retreat. By C. J. Bartlett (Macmillan) £4.95 … AND AFTER: Italy Since 1945. By Elizabeth Wiskemann (Macmillan) £2.95 Middle East: IMPERIALISM REDRAWN—AND REHASHED: Perfidious Albion: the Origins of Anglo-French Rivalry in the Levant. By John Marlowe (Elek Books) £5 Middle East: IMPERIALISM REDRAWN—AND REHASHED: The British in Egypt. By Peter Mansfield (Weidenfeld and Nicolson) £3.50 Middle East: A GLORIOUS FEAST: The Middle East: a Handbook. Ed. by Michael Adams (Anthony Blond) £8 Far East: VAST BUT SUPERIOR: The Soviet Far East. By E. Stuart Kirby (Macmillan) £5 Far East: PROBLEMS UNRESOLVED: British Strategy in the Far East, 1919–1939. By Wm. Roger Louis (Clarendon Press) £3.25 Far East: OBSERVER UNLIMITED: Worlds Apart. China 1953–55; USSR 1962–65. By Humphrey Trevelyan (Macmillan) £3.25 The Siege and Capture of Havana, 1762. Ed. by David Syrett (Navy Records Society) £3.50 (to non-members) Hard Lying: the Birth of the Destroyer. By Peter Smith (William Kimber) £2.50 The Tribals. By Martin H. Brice (Ian Allan) £3.80 Royal Sailors. By A. Cecil Hampshire (William Kimber) £3.25 Early Aviation—Man Conquers the Air. By Sir Robert Saundby (Macdonald) 70p Armament of British Aircraft, 1909–1939. By H. F. King (Putnam) £5.50 Airborne to Battle: 1918–1971. By Maurice Tugwell (William Kimber: London) £4.50 Regimental History: STIRLING CHARACTERS: The Special Air Service. By Philip Warner (William Kimber) £3.50 Regimental History: TEETH ARMS: History of the Royal Army Dental Corps. By Leslie J. Godden (Gale and Polden) £3 Regimental History: ARMS FOR PEACE: The Blue Berets: the Story of the United Nations Peacekeeping Forces. By Michael Harbottle (Leo Cooper) £3 Military History: BONES AND STONES: The Medieval Soldier. By Vesey Norman (Barker) £3 Military History: BONES AND STONES: The Medieval Castle. By Philip Warner (Barker) £2.50 Military History: VG—MG!: Pictorial History of the Machine Gun. By F. W. A. Hobart (Ian Allan) £3.45 Defence—Military and Civil: REVOLT AT ARMS: The Nigerian Military, a Sociological Analysis of Authority and Revolt, 1960–1967. By Robin Luckham (Cambridge University Press) £6 Defence—Military and Civil: SOCIAL POWER: Political Disobedience. By Leslie J. Macfarlane (Macmillan) Papermac: 60p Defence—Military and Civil: Brassey's Annual: Defence and the Armed Forces. Ed. by Major-General J. L. Moulton, RM (retd) (William Clowes & Sons Ltd) £5 Defence—Military and Civil: Seaford House Papers, 1970. Foreword by Alastair Buchan (Ministry of Defence: distributed to Universities, Institutes and journals without charge)