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Abstract The Strategy of Action. By General André Beaufre. (Faber & Faber.) 25s. The Virus House: Germany's Atomic Research and Allied Countermeasures. By David Irving. (Kimber.) 50s. Escalation and the Nuclear Option. By Bernard Brodie. (Princeton University Press. London: Oxford University Press.) 36s. Canada and ‘Imperial Defense’: A Study of the origins of the British Commonwealth's Defense Organization, 1867–1919. By Richard A. Preston. (Duke University Press, North Carolina.) $12.50. Sino-Soviet Military Relations. Edited by Raymond L. Garthoff. (Pall Mall Press.) 42s. Basic Tactics. By Mao Tse-tung. Translated by Stuart R. Schram. (Pall Mall Press.) 35s. The Long Long War: The Emergency in Malaya 1948–1960. By Richard Clutterbuck. (Cassell.) 30s. Why Viet Nam? By Frank N. Trager. (Pall Mall Press.) 35s. Vietnam: Seen from East and West. Edited by Sibnarayan Ray. (Pall Mall Press/Praeger.) 42s. The Algerian Insurrection 1954–1962. By Edgar O‘Ballance. (Faber & Faber.) 36s. The March of Death. By Stanley L. Falk. (Robert Hale.) 18s. The Jellicoe Papers: Vol. I, 1893–1916. Edited by A. Temple Patterson. (The Navy Records Society.) 50s. British Sea Power: Naval Policy in the Twentieth Century. By B. B. Schofield. (Batsford.) 45s. British Destroyers 1892–1953. By Edgar J. Marsh. (Seeley, Service.) 10 gns. Aim Straight: A Biography of Admiral Sir Percy Scott. By Peter Padfield. (Hodder & Stoughton.) 42s. Cunningham of Hyndhope: Admiral of the Fleet—A Memoir. By Oliver Warner. (John Murray.) 42s. Send a Gunboat. By Antony Preston and John Major. (Longmans.) 50s. Rescue at Sea. By Captain John M. Waters, Jr. (Van Nostrand.) 48s. Britannia at Dartmouth: The Story of H.M.S. Britannia and the Britannia Royal Naval College. By Captain S.W.C. Pack. (Alvin Redman.) 42s. The Montgomery Legend. By R. W. Thompson. (Allen & Unwin.) 32s. History of the Second World War: An International History published in co-operation with the Imperial War Museum. Editor-in-Chief: Captain Sir Basil Liddell Hart. Editor: Barrie Pitt. (Purnell & Sons Ltd.) The History of the Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry, 1939–1945. By Major E. G. Godfrey in collaboration with Major-General R. F. K. Goldsmith. (Published by the Regiment.) 84s. Infantry Uniforms of the British Army, 1790–1850. By P. H. Smitherman. (Hugh Evelyn.) 75s. Jane's All the World's Aircraft 1966–67. Edited and compiled by John W. R. Taylor. (Sampson Low, Marston & Co.) 8 gns. British Aviation: The Pioneer Years 1903–1914. By Harald Penrose. (Putnam.) 84s. The Anatomy of the Aeroplane. By Darrel Swinton. (G. T. Foulis.) 63s. The Wooden Sword: The Untold Story of the Gliders in World War II. By Lawrence Wright. (Elek Books.) 42s. Four Came Home. By Colonel Carroll V. Glines, U.S.A.F. (Van Nostrand.) 48s. Napoleon's Battles. By Henry Lachouque. (Allen & Unwin.) 52s. 6d. The Last Days of Napoleon's Empire. By Henry Lachouque. (Allen & Unwin.) 42s. The Campaigns of Napoleon. By David Chandler. (Weidenfeld & Nicolson.) 6 gns.