Reviews of books

MILITARY MAN, FAMILY MAN-CROWN PROPERTY? Military Man, Family Man-Crown Property? By Ruth Jolly (Brassey's Defence Publishers, London, 1987), £14.95, 167 pages. MILITARY SCIENCE The Mask of Command By John Keegan (Jonathan Cape, London, 1987), £12.95, 366 pages The Beginnings of Strategic Air Power By Neville Jones (Frank Cass and Co., London, 1987), £18.00, 173 pages The Illustrated Encyclopaedia of Artillery By Ian V. Hogg (Stanley Paul & Co. Ltd., London, 1987), £16.95, 256 pages Weapons and Warfare: Conventional Weapons and Their Roles in Battle Edited by Ken Perkins. (Brassey's, London, 1987), £25.00, 272 pages War Report: The War Correspondent's View of Battle from the Crimea to the Falklands By Trevor Royle (Mainstream Publishing, Edinburgh, 1987), £12.95, 239 pages The Royal Navy and the Falklands War By David Brown (Leo Cooper, London, 1987), £16.95, 384 pages How Nuclear Weapons Decisions are Made Edited by Scilla McLean (Macmillan, in association with the Oxford Research Group, Basingstoke, 1986), £25.00, 264 pages. Biological and Toxin Weapons Today Edited by Erhard Geissler (Oxford University Press for the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, Oxford, 1986), £20.00, 219 pages The Fiber Optics Source Book Edited by C. L. Eyler (Phillips Publishing Inc., Maryland, 1986) £158.00 (approx.), 300 pages Combat Fleets of the World 1986/87: Their Ships, Aircraft, and Armament Edited by Jean Labayle Couhat, English language edition, prepared by A. D. Baker III (Arms and Armour Press, London, 1986), £45.00, 764 pages Jane's Fighting Ships 1987-88 Edited by Captain John Moore, RN (Jane's Publishing Company Limited, London, 1987), £74.00, 855 pages INTERNATIONAL SECURITY The Defense of Western Europe Edited by Lewis H. Gann (Croom Helm, London, 1987), £29.95, 317 pages Setting the Mould, the United States and Britain 1945-1950 By Robin Edmonds (Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1986), £25.00, 349 pages The National Security: Its Theory and Practice 1945-1960 Edited by Norman A. Graebner (Oxford University Press, New York, Oxford, 1986), $13.20, 316 pages Biographical Dictionary of Modern Peace Leaders Edited by Harold Josephson (Greenwood Press, West-port, Connecticut, 1985), £95.00, 1133 pages The Indian Ocean and the Superpowers By Rasul B. Rais (Croom Helm, London and Sydney, 1986), £25.00, 215 pages Sheathing the Sword: The Demilitarisation of Japan By Meirion and Susie Harries (Hamish Hamilton, London, 1987), £15.95, 364 pages A History of the Isra