Reviews of Books

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Abstract Abstract The Russian Navy: Myth and Reality By Eric Morris (Hamish Hamilton, London, 1977), £5.95, 130 pages. Reviewed by John E. Moore. Soviet Naval Influence Edited By Michael MccGwire and John McDonnell (Praeger, 1977), 657 pages, no price quoted. Reviewed by John E. Moore. Jane's Fighting Ships Edited By Captain John Moore, RN (Jane's Yearbooks, London, 1977), £27.50, 829 pages. Reviewed by John Marriott. Beyond Nuclear Deterrence: New Aims New Arms Edited By Johan J. Hoist and Uwe Nerlich (Macdonald and Jane's London, 1977), £10.50, 314 pages. Reviewed by Elizabeth Saxon. Management in the Armed Forces: An Anatomy of the Military Profession By J. C. T. Downey with contributions by J. H. F. Eberle, M. C. Lanyon and D. C. Robinson (McGraw-Hill Book Company (UK) Ltd, 1977), £5.50, 221 pages. Reviewed by W.R.H. Lapper. How Long Will South Africa Survive? By R. W. Johnson (Macmillan, London, 1977), £8.95, 327 pages. Reviewed by Victoria Schofield. Death of a Country: The Civil War in Lebanon By John Bulloch (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 1977), £4.95, 200 pages. Reviewed by John Laffin. The Narrow Ground: Aspects of Ulster, 1609–1969 By A. T. Q. Stewart (Faber and Faber, London, 1977), £5.95, 208 pages. Reviewed by J. Howie. The Lessons of Vietnam Edited By W. Scott Thompson and Donaldson D. Frizzell (Macdonald and Jane's, London, 1977), £10.50, 288 pages. Reviewed by Colen Beer. The Carlos Complex: a Pattern of Violence By Christopher Dobson and Ronald Payne (Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1977), £5.50, 254 pages. Reviewed by F.E.C. Gregory. On Revolt: Strategies of National Liberation By J. Bowyer Bell (Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass., and London, England, 1976), £10.20, 272 pages. Reviewed by F.E.C. Gregory. The Guerrilla Reader: a Historical Anthology By Walter Laqueur (Meridian Books, New American Library, New York and London, 1977), $5.95, 246 pages. Reviewed by F.E.C. Gregory. The Man Who Broke Purple By Ronald W. Clark (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 1977), £5.25, 212 pages. Reviewed by B.B. Schofield. Instruments of Darkness: the History of Electronic Warfare By Alfred Price (Macdonald and Jane's, London, 1977), £5.95, 284 pages. Reviewed by M.T. Thrurbon. Blitz on Britain, 1939–1945 By Alfred Price (Ian Allan, London, 1977), £4.95, 192 pages. Reviewed by M.T. Thrurbon. The Life and Death of the Afrika Korps By Ronald Lewin (Batsford, London, 1977), £5.50, 197 pages. Reviewed by William Jackson. Panzer Army Africa By James Lucas (Macdonald and Jane's, London, 1977), £6.95, 188 pages. Reviewed by William Jackson. Pathfinder Force: a History of 8 Group By Gordon Musgrove (Macdonald and Jane's, London, 1976), £6.95, 302 pages. Reviewed by M.T.Thrurbon. Nurse Sarah Anne: With Florence Nightingale at Scutari Edited By Robert G. Richardson (John Murray, London, 1977), £4.95, 178 pages. Reviewed by B.M. Ducat-Amos. Men at Arnhem By Tom Angus (Leo Cooper, London, 1976), £4.95, 208 pages. Reviewed by Martin Lindsay. Triumph …: Operation Husky: The Allied Invasion of Sicily By S. W. C. Pack (David and Charles, Newton Abbot, 1977), £4.95, 186 pages. Reviewed by Patrick Bayly. … and disaster: Singapore 1941–1942 By Louis Allen (Davis-Poynter, London, 1977), £6.50, 343 pages. Reviewed by Keith Simpson. Corps Commander By Sir Bryan Horrocks, with Eversley Belfield and Major-General H. Essame (Sidgwick & Jackson), £6.95, 256 pages. Reviewed by Martin Lindsay. Her Privates We By Frederic Manning (Peter Davies, London, 1977), £2.20, 274 pages. Reviewed by James Marshall-Cornwall. Grandfather's Adventures in the Great War 1914–1918 By Cecil M. Slack (Arthur H. Stockwell, Ilfracombe, 1977), £2.00, 284 pages. Reviewed by by James Marshall-Cornwall. The Black Watch: the History of the Royal Highland Regiment By Eric and Andro Linklater (Barrie & Jenkins, London, 1977), £8.95, 223 pages. Reviewed by James Marshall-Cornwall. Defence of Australia: Fundamental New Aspects Edited By Robert O'Neil (Australian National University, 1977), 147 pages. Reviewed by F.J.Plaskett. The Future of Tactical Airpower in the Defence of Australia Edited By Desmond Ball (Australian National University, 1977), 221 pages. Reviewed by F.J.Plaskett. Australia's Military Alliances: a Study in Foreign and Defence Policies By C. Chaknavorty (Sterling Publishers, New Delhi, 1977), Rs60, 288 pages. Reviewed by F.J.Plaskett. Beaufort of the Admiralty By Alfred Friendly (Hutchinson, London, 1977), £7.50, 362 pages. Reviewed by Edmund Irving. Technical Change and British Naval Policy 1860–1939 Edited By Bryan Ranft (Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1977), £8.50, 178 pages. Reviewed by Geoffrey Bennett. International justice: Reaching Judgment at Nuremberg By Bradley F. Smith (André Deutsch, London, 1977), £6.50, 349 pages. Reviewed by Geoffrey Best.