Reviews of Books

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Abstract Special forces: Military Elites By Roger A. Beaumont (Robert Hale, London, 1976), £5.50, 251 pages. Conflict in Ireland: The Anglo-Irish Tradition By J. C. Beckett (Faber and Faber, London, 1977), £5.50, 159 pages. Conflict in Ireland: Revolutionary Underground: The Story of the Irish Republican Brotherhood 1858–1924 By Leon 'Broin (Gill and Macmillan, Dublin), £6.95, 245 pages. Development and control of arms: Developing the ICBM: A Study in Bureaucratic Politics By Edmund Beard (Columbia University Press, 1976), $18.75, 273 pages. Development and control of arms: International Arms Control—Issues and Agreements By the Stanford Arms Control Group, ed. John H. Barton and Lawrence D. Weiler (Stanford University Press, California, 1976), $18.50, paperback $12.95, 444 pages. Two air forces: The Royal Air Force: The Last Thirty Years By A. G. Trevenen James (Macdonald and Jane's, London, 1976), £5.95, 230 pages. Two air forces: The Soviet Air Force since 1918 By Alexander Boyd (Macdonald and Jane's, London, 1977), £6.50, 259 pages. Be prepared: Civil Defence—A Soviet View By P. T. Yegorov, I. A. Shlyakhov and N. I. Alabin (Moscow, 1970). (Translated and edited by the Oak Ridge National Laboratory under the auspices of the United States Air Force. Printed and distributed by the US Government Printing Office.) $3.45, 374 pages. The dark continent: Strategic Highways of Africa By Guy Arnold and Ruth Weiss (John Friedmann, London, 1977), casebound £5.95, paperback £3.50, 178 pages. The dark continent: The Secret War in the Sudan, 1955–72 By Edgar 'Ballance (Faber and Faber, London, 1977), £5.50, 160 pages. Two views of peace-keeping: War and Peace in the Middle East By General Odd Bull (Leo Cooper), £6.95, 205 pages. Two views of peace-keeping: Peace Soldiers—The Sociology of a United Nations Military Force By Charles C. Moskos, Jr (University of Chicago Press, 1976), £7.50, 171 pages. A wealth of experience: Bunch of Five By Frank Kitson (Faber & Faber, London, 1977), £5.95, 303 pages. A by-gone age: Britannia Rules: The Classic Age of Naval History 1793–1815 By C. Northcote Parkinson (Weidenfeld and Nicolson, London, 1977), £5.95, 200 pages. A. T. Mahan: The Letters and Papers of Alfred Thayer Mahan Edited by Robert Seager II and Doris D. Maguire (Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, Maryland, 1975; Patrick Stephens, Cambridge, 1976), £60, three volumes of 718, 745 and 873 pages respectively. Arthur Marder: Naval Warfare in the Twentieth Century—Essays in Honour of Arthur Marder Edited By Gerald Jordan (Croom Helm, London; Crane Russak, New York, 1977), £6.95, 243 pages. Ships World-wide in World War II: Allied Escort Ships of World War II By Peter Elliott, (Macdonald and Jane's, London, 1977), £15.00, 558 pages. Ships World-wide in World War II: Soviet Warships of the Second World War By Jurg Meister (Macdonald and Jane's, London, 1977), £7.95, 348 pages. Ships World-wide in World War II: Warships of the Imperial Japanese Navy 1869–1945 By Hansgeorg Jentschura, Dieter Jung and Peter Mickel. Translated by Antony Preston and J. D. Brown (Arms and Armour Press, London, 1977), £12.95, 280 pages. US Naval Strategy: The First South Pacific Campaign: Pacific Fleet Strategy December 1941–June 1942 By John B. Lundstrom (Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, Maryland, $14.50; Patrick Stephen Ltd, Cambridge, 1977), £10.95, 205 pages. 19th-century warfare: Austerlitz 1805 By Christopher Dutty (Seeley Service and Cooper, London, 1977), £5.95, 200 pages. 19th-century warfare: Wellington's Army in the Peninsula 1808–1814 By Michael Glover (David and Charles, Newton Abbot, 1977), £5.50, 180 pages. 19th-century warfare: The Red Soldier: Letters from the Zulu War, 1879 By Frank Emery (Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1977), £6.25, 288 pages. The Victorian era: The Army in Victorian Society By Gwyn Harries-Jenkins (Routledge & Kegan Paul, London, 1977), £5.50, 281 pages. Battle honours: Honour Titles of the Royal Artillery By Major-General B. P. Hughes (Royal Artillery Institution, Woolwich, London SE18, 1977), £5.95, 222 pages. Death to the Führer: The History of the German Resistance 1933–1945 By Peter Hoffmann (Macdonald and Jane's, London, 1977), £15, 800 pages. Collectors' items: The Two World Wars. A Guide to Manuscript Collections in the United Kingdom By S. L. Mayer and W. J. Koenig (Bowker Publishing Co), £2.50, 317 pages. Collectors' items: A Bibliographical Guide to the Two World Wars By Gwyn M. Bayliss (Bowker), £15.00, 578 pages. Collectors' items: World War II: An Account of its Documents Ed. James E. 'Neill and Robert W. Kraushopf (Howard University Press, Washington, DC), £15.00. Collectors' items: A Subject Bibliography of the Second World War: Books in English 1939–1974 By A. G. S. Enser (Andre Deutsch), £11.95, 592 pages.