Book reviews

MILITARY SCIENCE Air Defence By Group Captain M B Elsam (Brassey's, London, 1989), £9.90,92 pages The Educating of Armies Edited by M D Stephens (Macmillan, Basingstoke, 1989), £35.00, 237 pages Chariots of the Desert: The Story of the Israeli Armoured Corps By David Eshel, with a foreword and notes by Bryan Watkins (Brassey's Defence Publishers, London, 1989), £16.95, 202 pages INTERNATIONAL SECURITY Success and Failure in Arms Control Negotiations By April Carter (SIPRI/Oxford University Press, New York, 1989), £27.50, 308 pages The Great Universal Embrace-A Skeptics Account By Kenneth L Adelman (Simon and Schuster, New York, 1989), US$19.95,366 pages Perspectives on the Arms Race: Studies in Disarmament and Conflicts Edited by David Carlton and Carlo Schaerf (Macmillan, London, 1989), £45.00,336 pages TECHNOLOGY AND DEFENCE PROCUREMENT The Technology Trap By Timothy Garden (Brassey's Defence Publishers, London, 1989), £16.95,148 pages The Defence Industrial Base and the West Edited by D B Haglund (Routledge, London, 1989), £30.00, 288 pages USSR AND EASTERN EUROPE The Soviet-East German Military Alliance By Douglas MacGregor (Cambridge University Press, 1989), £25.00,178 pages Red Army-A Novel of Tomorrow's War By Ralph Peters (W H Allen and Company pic, London, 1989), Hardback £12.95/Paperback £6.99, 382 pages MILITARY HISTORY The Battle of Sangshak By Harry Seaman (Leo Cooper, London, 1989), £12.95,148 pages Business in Great Waters By John Terraine (Leo Cooper, London, 1989), £19.50, 673 pages General-at-Sea: Robert Blake and the Seventeenth Century Revolution in Naval Warfare By Michael Baumber (John Murray, London, 1989), £17.95, 284 pages Ready for Anything-The Parachute Regiment at War, 1940-1982 By Julian Thompson (Weidenfeld and Nicolson, London, 1989), £14.95, 365 pages The Road to War By Richard Overy and Andrew Wheatcroft (Macmillan & BBC Books, London, 1989), £15.95, 365 pages The Drift to War, 1922-1939 By Richard Lamb (W H Allen, London, 1989), £14-95,372 pages Pilots and Rebels (The Use of Aircraft in Unconventional Warfare 1918-1988) By Philip Anthony Towle (Brassey's, London, 1989), £29.95, 253 pages Wings in the Sun By Air Chief Marshal Sir David Lee (HMSO, London, 1990), £17.50,265 pages AUTOBIOGRAPHY The Time of My Life By Denis Healey (Michael Joseph, London, 1989), £17.95,606 pages REFERENCE TITLES European Defence Dossier By BDMI Ltd, in association with the Centre for Defence Studies, University of Aberdeen. (Available by subscr