Reviews of Books

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Abstract Decisions in Defence: Never again? The Continental Commitment: The Dilemma of British Defence Policy in the Era of the Two World Wars By Michael Howard (Temple Smith) £2.40 Decisions in Defence: Independence v. nostalgia: Nuclear Politics: The British Experience with an Independent Strategic Force 1939–1970 By Andrew J. Pierre (OUP) £5.50 Decisions in Defence: Sitting below SALT: The Politics of Defence By David Owen (Jonathan Cape) £2.95 East and West: Too many conflicts. Alliance in Decline. A study in Anglo-Japanese Relations 1908–23 By Ian H. Nish (Athlone Press, University of London) £7.50 East and West: Too few reasons: Afternoon on the Potomac By Roy Jenkins. A British view of America's changing position in the world (Yale University Press) £1.50 Biography: Master manipulator. Beaverbrook By A. J. P. Taylor (Hamish Hamilton) £6.50 Biography: Mass mediator: Nasser By Anthony Nutting (Constable) £3.95 Biography: Tactician of tact: Foch as Military Commander By General Sir James Marshall-Cornwall, KCB, CBE, DSO, MC (Batsford) £4 Memoir: Behind the corridors. The Memoirs of Lord Gladwyn (Weidenfeld and Nicholson) £4.50 Memoir: Out on the job: High Road to Command: The Diaries of Major-General Sir Edmund Ironside 1920–1922 Ed. by Lord Ironside (Leo Cooper) £4.95 World War 2: Elegant perspective. Total War: Causes and Courses of the Second World War By Peter Calvocoressi and Guy Wint (Allen Lane The Penguin Press) £6 World War 2: Unfortunate distortions: The Patriotic Traitors: A History of Collaboration in German-occupied Europe By David Littlejohn (Cassell) £3.90 World War 2: Getting it right: Forecast for Overlord By J. M. Stagg (Ian Allan) £2.60 World War 2: Validation of Selection Boards By E. G. Reeve (Academic Press) £5.00 World War 1: Thinking only this…. An Infant in Arms: War Letters of a Company Officer 1914–1918 By Graham H. Greenwell. With an Introduction and Note by John Terraine (Allen Lane The Penguin Press) £3.25 World War 1: The Complete Memoirs of George Sherston (Three Volumes in one) By Siegfried Sassoon (Faber & Faber) Paperback £1.60 World War 1: Gone for a Soldier By Anthony French. Drawings by Stephen Black (Kineton: The Roundwood Press) £2.25 World War 1: …Living like that: The Home Fronts: Britain, France, and Germany 1914–1918 By John Williams (Constable) £3 History: Greats to be read. The Great Trek By Oliver Ransford (John Murray) £3.50 History: The Great Gamble: Nelson at Copenhagen By Dudley Pope (Weidenfeld and Nicolson) £4.80 History: Regiments for the record: The Royal Marines By J. L. Moulton (Leo Cooper) £2.50 History: British and Commonwealth Armoured Formations (1919–1946) By Duncan Crow: £2.25; 79th Armoured Division—Hobo's Funnies By Nigel Duncan: £1.95 (Profile Publications) Aviation: Australian …. Military Aircraft of Australia 1908 By Wing Commander Keith Isaacs, AFC, CRAeS, RAAF (Australian War Memorial, Canberra) $6.50 Aviation: …and American: United States Military Aircraft Since 1908 By Gordon Swanborough and Peter M. Bowers (Putnam) £6.50 Reference: Battle for priorities. British and Commonwealth AFV's 1940–1946. Armoured Fighting Vehicles of the World Vol 3 Ed. by Duncan Crow (Profile Publications) £6.00 Reference: Nautical development: Flottes de Combat 1972 Ed. by Henri Le Masson (Editions Maritimes et d'Outre Mer) £3.00 Reference: Cast list WW 2: Biographical Dictionary of World War II By Christopher Turner (Dent.) £3.50