Abstract Surveyor's report The Soviet Empire: Pressure and Strains An ISC Special Report (The Institute for the Study of Conflict, London, 1980), £7.50, 66 pages. Reviewed by Owen Humphrys. Under the microscope Soviet Strategy For Nuclear War By Joseph D. Douglass, Jr. and Amoretta M. Hoeber (Hoover Institution Press, California, 1979), S5.95, 138 pages. Reviewed by C.J. Dick. A time to recapStrategic Thought in the Nuclear Age General Editor, Hossein Amirsadeghi; Editor, Laurence Martin (Heine-mann, London, 1979), £9.95, 233 pages. Reviewed by E.M. Fizgerald. Inside the CIAThe Man Who Kept the Secrets: Richard Helms and the CIA By Thomas Powers (Weidenfeld and Nicolson, London, 1980), £10.00, 308 pages. Reviewed by J.M.Bruce Lockhart. Abundance of aircraftAir Forces of the World By Mark Hewish, Bill Sweetman, Barry C. Wheeler and Bill Gunston (Salamander Books, London, 1979), £8.95, 264 pages. Reviewed by F.W. Thompson. The World's Air Forces Edited by Chris Grant (David and Charles, London, 1979),£6.95, 255 pages Reviewed by F.W. Thompson. Air Force of the World by Barry C, Wheeler (Ian Allan Ltd, London, 1997), £4.95, 112 pages Reviewed by F.W. Thompson. Air power at sea Air Power and the Royal Navy 1914–1945. A Historical Survey By Geoffrey Till (Jane's Publishing Company, London, 1979), £9.50, 224 pages Reviewed by R.A. Mason. A sorry business Battle for Pakistan. The Air War of 1965 By John Fricker (Ian Allan, London, 1979), £6.50, 192 pages. Reviewed by S.M.W. Hickey. Hero or villain? Bhutto: Trial and Execution By Victoria Schofield (Cassell, London, 1979), £7.95, 250 pages. Reviewed by T.W. Lowe. Bravery speaks for itself Fighter Pilot: A personal record of the campaign in France, 1939–40 By Wing Commander Paul Richey, DFC, RAF (retd), (Jane's Publishing Co., London, 1980), £7.95, 142 pages. Reviewed by C.N. Foxley-Norris. Admiral Godfrey Very Special Admiral By Patrick Beesly (Hamish Hamilton, London, 1980), £9.50, 345 pages. Reviewed by B.B. Schofield. Soldiering on Milestones By Sir John Smyth, VC (Sidgwick and Jackson, London, 1979), £10.00, 304 pages. Reviewed by S.M.W. Hickey. “I've been here before!” The Crucible of War: Western Desert 1941 By Barrie Pitt (Jonathan Cape, London, 1980), £8.95, 506 pages. Reviewed by Ronald Lewin. The Philippines Crisis of Command, Australian Generalship and the Japanese Threat 1941–1943 By Major D. M. Horner (Australian National University Press, Canberra, 1978), £12.75, 400 pages. Reviewed by P.C.H. Hayward. Enemy coast ahead Invasion 1943: The Invasion that Never Was By John Grigg (Eyre Methuen, London, 1980), £7.95, 255 pages. Reviewed by Shelford Bidwell. Second Front Now: The Road to D-Day By George Bruce (Macdonald and Jane's, London, 1980), £7.95, 193 pages Reviewed by Shelford Bidwell. Invasion: The German Invasion of England By Kenneth Macksey (Arms and Armour Press, London, 1980), £7.95, 233 pages Reviewed by Shelford Bidwell. The day of the domino America's Longest War: The United States and Vietnam, 1950–1975 By George C. Herring (John Wiley & Sons, New York, 1979), £7.75, 298 pages. Reviewed by J.S. Fowles. In the bush Zulu War Journal By Colonel Henry Harford, CB, edited by Daphne Child (Frederick Warne, Leo Cooper Books, Dorking, 1980), £6.25, 100 pages. Reviewed by P.C.H. Hayward.