Reviews of Books

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Abstract Abstract The Weapons of Terror: International terrorism at work By Christopher Dobson and Ronald Payne (Macmillan, London, 1979), £3.95, 216 pages. Reviewed by Tony Geraghty. Terrorism: International Dimensions—Answering the Challenge By Paul Wilkinson (Institute for the Study of Conflict, London, 1979), £2. Reviewed by Tony Geraghty. Regular Armies and Insurgency Edited by Ronald Haycock (Croom Helm, London, 1979), £7.95, 101 pages. Reviewed by I. F. W. Beckett. New Conventional Weapons and East-West Security Edited by Christoph Bertram (Macmillan, for the IISS, London, 1979), £8.95, 97 pages. Reviewed by Noel Falconer. The World Military Order. The Impact of Military Technology on the Third World Edited by Mary Kaldor and Asbj⊘rn Eide (Macmillan, London, 1979), £15, 306 pages. Reviewed by Keith Simpson. Dictionary of the Napoleonic Wars By David G. Chandler (Arms and Armour Press, London, 1979), £12.95, 800 pages. Reviewed by P. H. C. Hayward. The Boer War By Thomas Pakenham (Weidenfeld and Nicolson, London, 1979), £10.00, 659 pages. Reviewed by Elizabeth Saxon. No Man's Land; Combat and Identity in World War I By Eric J. Leed (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, New York, Melbourne, 1979) £10.50, 257 pages. Reviewed by Theodore Bogacz. The Admiralty By N. A. M. Rodger (Terence Dalton, Suffolk, 1979), £7.95, 179 pages. Reviewed by B. B. Schofield. Battleship Barham By Geoffrey Jones (William Kimber, London, 1979), £7.95, 265 pages. Reviewed by Royer Dick. Securing The Seas: The Soviet Naval Challenge and Western Alliance Options By Paul Nitze, Leonard Sullivan, Jr and the Atlantic Council Working Group on Securing the Seas (Westview Press, Colorado, 1979), S24 hardback, S12 softback, 452 pages. Reviewed by Bryan Ranft. The Modern Soviet Navy: An Assessment of the USSR's Current Warships, Naval Capabilities and Development Edited by Norman Polmar (Arms and Armour Press, London and Melbourne, 1979), £6.95, 119 pages. Reviewed by Bryan Ranft. Modern Warship Design and Development By Norman Friedman (Conway Maritime Press, London, 1979), £9.50, 192 pages. Reviewed by Eric J. Grove. British Warships and Auxiliaries By Mike Critchley (Maritime Books, Liskeard, 1979), £1.50, 112 pages. Reviewed by Eric J. Grove. The Apostles of Mobility: The Theory and Practice of Armoured Warfare By Field Marshal Lord Carver (Weidenfeld and Nicolson, London, 1979), £6, 108 pages. Reviewed by P. H. Vigok. Dieppe 1942: The Jubilee Disaster By Ronald Atkin (Macmillan, London, 1980), £6.95, 306 pages. Reviewed by P. S. Newton. The Greatest Air Battle By Norman Franks (William Kimber, London, 1979), £6.95, 256 pages. Reviewed by R. A. Mason. The Hardest Day By Alfred Price (Macdonald and Jane's, London, 1979), £5.95, 223 pages. Reviewed by R. A. Mason. A Thousand Shall Fall By Murray Peden (Canada's Wings), £9.50, 473 pages. Reviewed by A. G. Trevenen James. First In! Parachute Pathfinder Company By Ron Kent (Batsford, London, 1979) £6.50, 181 pages. Reviewed by G. P. Burnett. The German Soldier in Russia 1941–5 By James Lucas (Jane's, London, 1979), £7.95. Reviewed by C. Bellamy. The Battle of the Box By Patrick Turnbull (Ian Allan, Middlesex, 1979), £7.50, 144 pages. Reviewed by P. H. C. Hayward. Double-edged Secrets: US Naval Intelligence Operations in the Pacific during World War II By W. J. Holmes (Patrick Stephens Ltd, Cambridge, 1979), £9.50, 240 pages. Reviewed by Ronald Lewin. The Medical Casebook of Adolf Hilter By Professor Leonard L. Heston, MD, and Renate Heston, RN (William Kimber, London, 1979), £6.95, 184 pages. Reviewed by Hugh L'Etang. The Literature of War. Five Studies in Heroic Virtue By Andrew Rutherford (Macmillan, London, 1979), £8.95, 176 pages. Reviewed by Keith Simpson.