Reviews of Books
1975; Routledge; Volume: 120; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1080/03071847509422339
ISSN1744-0378
Tópico(s)Politics and Conflicts in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Middle East
ResumoAbstract General Beaufre's Testament: Strategy for Tomorrow By André Beaufre (Macdonald & Jane's) £3.50, 91 pages. Reviewed by E. K. G. Sixsmith. A German view of sea-power: Seemacht und ausscnpolitik Edited by Dieter Mahncke and Hans-Peter Schwarz (Volume 11 in the series Rüstungsbeschränkung und Sicherheit, produced by the Forschungsinstitut der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Auswärtige Politik; Alfred Metzner Verlag, Frankfurt a. M.) 554 pages. Reviewed by Paul M. Kennedy. The fog of future war: War in the Next Decade Edited by Roger A. Beaumont and Martin Edmonds (Macmillan) £7.00, 217 pages. Reviewed by A. J. Trythall. Societies at war: The American Civil War by Peter J. Parish (Eyre Methuen) £12.75, 750 pages. Reviewed by John Terraine. Undefeated guerrilla: Battle for the Bundu by Charles Miller (Macdonald & Janes) £3.95, 353 pages. Reviewed by Roger Sibley. Coastal raiders: Night Action by Captain Peter Dickens, DSO, MBE, DSC, RN(retd). (Peter Davies) £4.50, 242 pages. Reviewed by B. B. Schofield. Khalsa-ki-jai: The Sikh Wars 1845–6 1848–9 by H. C. B. Cook (Leo Cooper) £6.25, 240 pages. Reviewed by B. P. Hughes. The Duke's doctor: Wellington's Surgeon General: Sir James McGrigor by Richard L. Blanco (Duke University Press) $9.75, 235 pages. Reviewed by Michael Glover. Cannon and musket: Firepower: Weapon Effectiveness on the Battlefield 1630–1850 by Major General B. P. Hughes, CB, CBE (Arms and Armour Press) £4.50, 174 pages. Reviewed by P. H. C. Hayward. Marshal Vorwärts: The Hussar General: the Life of Blücher, Man of Waterloo by Roger Parkinson (Peter Davies) £5.75, 264 pages. Reviewed by S. G. P. Ward. Exercise with live ammunition: Air War Over Spain by Jesus Salas Larrazabal (Ian Allan) £6.50, 370 pages. Reviewed by C. Foxley-Norris. Terrorism: Political Terrorism By Paul Wilkinson (Macmillan) £4.95, Paper ed. £1.95, 192 pages. Reviewed by Peter Janke. Terrorism: Terrorists and Terrorism By Edward Hyams (Dent) £3.50, 200 pages. Reviewed by Peter Janke. A denial of complexity: In Holy Terror By Simon Winchester (Faber and Faber) £3.25, 256 pages. Reviewed by Robbin Evelegh. Causes and cures?: A Theory of Conflict By Brian Crozier (Hamish Hamilton) £4.50, 245 pages. Reviewed by A. J. R. Groom. Wrong focus: The Dynamics of the Arms Race Edited by David Carlton and Carlo Schaerf (Croom Helm, London) £6.00, 244 pages. Reviewed by Philip Towele. The “Emergency”: The Communist Insurrection in Malaya 1948–1960 By Anthony Short (Frederick Muller) £8.95, 547 pages. Reviewed by Dennis J. Duncanson. Moscow looks west: The Soviet Presence in Latin America By James D. Theberge (National Strategy Information Centre Inc.; Crane, Russak and Co, New York; sole agent and distributor UK Leo Cooper Ltd) £4.25 hardback. £2.50 paperback, 107 pages. Reviewed by Stephen Clissold. Dragoon in Dhofar: Where Soldiers Fear to Tread By Ranulph Fiennes (Hodder and Stoughton) £3.50, 250 pages. Reviewed by P. H. C. Hayward. Radical soldier: General Maurice Sarrail 1856–1929: The French Army and Left-Wing Politics By Jan Karl Tanenbaum (North Carolina University Press; London, Oxford University Press) £7.50, 300 pages. Reviewed by John Stephenson. Admiral Rickover: a triumph of will-power: Nuclear Navy 1946–1962 By Richard G. Hewlett and Francis Duncan (University of Chicago) £12.50, 477 pages. Reviewed by John Andrews. USMA—Athens or Sparta?: School for Soldiers: West Point and the Profession of Arms by Joseph Ellis and Robert Moore (New York, OUP) £5.75, 291 pages. Reviewed by Keith Simpson. British military aircraft: The British Fighter Since 1912 (3rd edition) and The British Bomber Since 1914 (2nd edition), both by Peter Lewis (Putnam & Co) each £4.50, 406 pages and 420 pages. Reviewed by Bill Gunston. The Real Spy World By Miles Copeland (Weidenfeld & Nicolson) £3.50, 350 pages. Reviewed by J. M. Bruce Lockhart. OTHER BOOKS RECEIVED AND GRATEFULLY ACKNOWLEDGED
Referência(s)