Book reviews

MILITARY SCIENCE Central Region vs Out-of-Area; Future Commitments Edited by Major General J J G Mackenzie and Brian Holden Reid, (Tri-Service Press, London, 1990), £32.50 hardback/ £12.50 paperback, 245 pages Deception Operations Edited by David A Charters and Maurice AJ Tugwell, (Brassey's (UK), London, 1990), £36.00, 432 pages Hostile Action: The KGB and Soviet Secret Operations in Britain By Peter Shipley (Pinter Publishers, London, in association with John Spiers, 1989), £25.00, 224 pages INTERNATIONAL SECURITY The Cyanide War By Edgar O'Ballance (Brassey's (UK), London 1989), £16.95, 139 pages Soviet Sea Power in Northern Waters Edited by John Skogan and Arne Brundtland (Pinter Publishers, London, 1990), £35.00 Security at Sea: Naval Forces and Arms Control Edited by Richard Fieldhouse (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1990), £25.00,301 pages Japan: the blighted blossom By Roy Thomas (i B Tauris, London, 1989), £16.95, 299 pages TECHNOLOGY, INDUSTRY AND DEFENCE PROCUREMENT The Naval Arms Trade By Ian Anthony (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1990), £17.50, 219 pages The British Aircraft Industry By Keith Hayward, (Manchester University Press, London, 1989), £29.95, 221 pages MILITARY HISTORY Courage Remembered By G Kingsley Ward and Major Edward Gibson (HMSO, London, 1989), £13.95, 282 pages Maritime Strategy and trie Balance of Power (Britain and America in the Twentieth Century) Edited by John B Hattendorf and Robert S Jordan (St Antony's/Macmillan, London, 1989), £45.00, 400 pages History and the Sea: Essays on Maritime Strategies By Clark G Reynolds, (University of South Carolina Press, South Carolina, 1989), NPG The Impact of Air Power on the British People and Their Government 1909-14 By Alfred Gollin (Macmillan, London, 1989), £40.00, 354 pages Rhineland - The Battle to End the War By W D & S Whitaker, (Leo Cooper, London, 1989), £17.50, 422 pages Submarine Torbay By Paul Chapman (Robert Hale, London, 1989), £11.95, 187 pages Coningham By Vincent Orange (Methuen, London, 1990), £16.99, 292 pages Bombs Gone By Wing Commander John A MacBean &. Major Arthur S Hogben (Patrick Stephens Ltd, Wellingborough, 1990), £16.99, 330 pages Slim: The Standardbearer by Ronald Lewin (Leo Cooper, London, republished in paperback 1990), £9.95, 350 pages The Crimean War: British Grand Strategy against Russia, 1853-56 By Andrew D Lambert (Manchester University Press, Manchester, 1990), £35.00, 369 pages Men of the Red Beret, Airborne Forces 1940-1990 By Max Arthur