Reviews of Books

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Abstract The Military Intellectuals in Britain, 1918–1939. By Robin Higham. (Rutgers University Press.) $7.50. The New Economics of National Defense. By John J. Clark. (Random House, New York.) $4.95. The Rand Corporation: Case Study of a Nonprofit Advisory Corporation. By Bruce L. R. Smith. (Harvard University Press. London: Oxford University Press.) 64s. Soviet Military Policy: A Historical Analysis. By Raymond L. Garthoff. (Faber & Faber.) 42s. Voices Prophesying War, 1763–1984. By I. F. Clarke. (Oxford University Press.) 42s. A Glossary of the Construction, Decoration and Use of Arms and Armor in all Countries and in All Times. By George Cameron Stone. (Jack Brussel.) $19.95. Military Geography. By Louis C. Peltier and G. Etzel Pearcy. (Van Nostrand.) 16s. Malaya: The Communist Insurgent War, 1948–1960. By Edgar O'Ballance. (Faber & Faber.) 30s. Viet-Nam Witness 1953–1966. By Bernard B. Fall. (Pall Mall Press.) 50s. Lost Soldiers: The French Army and Empire in Crises, 1947–1962. By George Armstrong Kelly. (The M.I.T. Press, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.) $10.00 Douglas Haig As I Knew Him. By G. S. Duncan. (Allen & Unwin.) 25s. Ludendorff—Soldier: Dictator: Revolutionary. By D. J. Goodspeed. (Hart-Davis.) 55s. Hirohito: Emperor of Japan. By Leonard Mosley. (Weidenfeld & Nicolson.) 42s. Russian Hussar. By Vladimir S. Littauer. (J. A. Allen.) 30s. Wearing Spurs. By John Reith. (Hutchinson.) 30s. A Don at War. By Sir David Hunt, K.C.M.G., O.B.E. (Kimber.) 50s. World War 1939–45: A Short History. By Brigadier Peter Young, D.S.O., M.C. (Arthur Barker.) 45s. The Struggle for Crete: A Story of Lost Opportunity, 20 May—1 June 1941. By I. McD. G. Stewart. (Oxford University Press.) 70s. U.S. Army in World War II. European Theater of Operations. The Ardennes: Battle of the Bulge. By Hugh M. Cole. (Office of the Chief of Military History, United States Army.) $7.50. Navy Board Contracts 1660–1832. By Bernard Pool, C.B., C.B.E. (Longmans.) 50s. Oar Maces of Admiralty. (Her Majesty's Stationery Office.) 8s. 6d. The Smoke Screen of Jutland. By Commander John Irving, R.N., Retd. (Kimber.) 50s. The Sea our Shield. By Captain W. R. Fell, C.M.G., C.B.E., D.S.C., R.N. (Cassell.) 36s. One Minute of Time: The “Melbourne-Voyager” Collision. By Vice-Admiral Harold Hickling, C.B., C.B.E., D.S.O. (A. H. & A. W. Reed, Wellington, New Zealand.) 25s. An Army for the Sixties: A Study in National Policy, Contract and Obligation. By Anthony Verrier. (Secker & Warburg.) 42s. Mafeking: A Victorian Legend. By Brian Gardner. (Cassell.) 30s. Salute the Soldier: An Anthology of Quotations, Poems and Prose. Edited by Captain Eric Wheler Bush, D.S.O., D.S.C., Royal Navy. (Allen & Unwin.) 52s. 6d. A History of the Royal School for Daughters of Officers of the Army 1864–1965. By Honor Osborne and Peggy Manisty. (Hodder & Stoughton.) 30s. Boeing Aircraft since 1916. By Peter M. Bowers. (Putnam.) 63s. British Flying-Boats and Amphibians 1909–1952. By G. R. Duval. (Putnam.) 50s.