Book reviews

THE SOVIET UNION Military Objectives in Soviet Foreign Policy By Michael MccGwire (The Brookings Institution, Washington, DC, 1987), Hardback $39.95/ Paperback $18.95, 530 pages Report on the Accident at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Station By US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (Washington DC, January 1987), £37.90, 209 pages The Challenge: Economics of Peres-troika By Abel Aganbegyan. Introduction by Alec Nove. (Century Hutchinson, London, 1988), Hardback £20.00, Paperback £8.95, 248 pages MILITARY SCIENCE Modern Sea Power By Geoffrey Till (Brassey's Defence Publishers, London, 1987), Hardback £16.95/ Paperback £9.95, 180 pages Surface Warships By P. J. Gates (Brassey's Defence Publishers, London, 1987), Hardback £16.95/ Paperback £9.95, 190 pages Jane's All the World's Aircraft, 1987-88 By John W. R. Taylor (Jane's Publishing Company Ltd.), £76.00, 1089 pages Understanding Radar By Henry W. Cole (Collins, London, 1985), £10.95, 267 pages Modern Radar Techniques Edited by M. J. B. Scanlan (Collins, London, 1987), £35.00, 291 pages INTERNATIONAL SECURITY Nuclear Weapon Tests: Prohibition or Limitation? Edited by Jozef Gold-blat and David Cox (Oxford University Press, New York USA, 1988), £40.00, 423 pages Hedley Bull on Arms Control Edited by Robert O'Neill and Davis N. Schwartz (Macmillan IISS, London, 1987), £29.50, 302 pages Democracy and Deterrence: The History and Future of Nuclear Strategy by P. Bobbitt (Macmillan, London, 1988), H/C£29.50 and P/R £9.95, 350 pages The Long Peace By John Lewis Gaddis (Oxford University Press, New York and Oxford, 1987), $24.95, 332 pages The Cold War Past and Present Edited by Richard Crockatt and Steve Smith (Allen & Unwin, London, 1987), £25.00 Hardback/£9.95 paperback, 244 pages Germany Between East and West By Edwina Moreton (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1987), £22.50, 185 pages MIDDLE EAST Libyan Politics: Tribe and Revolution By John Davis (I. B. Tauris, London, 1987), Paperback £9.50, 297 pages Israeli Society and its Defence Establishment Edited by Moshe Lissak (Frank Cass, London, 1984), £20.00, 152 pages Soviet-American Relations with Pakistan, Iran and Afghanistan Edited by Hafeez Malik (Macmillan Press, London, 1987), £29.50, 431 pages MILITARY HISTORY Twentieth Century Warriors By Field Marshal Lord Carver (Weidenfeld and Nicolson, London, 1987), £16.95, 468 pages A Life in Peace and War By Sir Brian Urquhart (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 1987), £15.95, 379 pages A History of the Irish Soldier By