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Pages 262-280 | Published online: 24 Jan 2008
 

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Lee Kennett, The First Air War 1914–1918. The Free Press: Macmillan Inc., New York, 1991. Pp.xii + 275, biblio. essay; $24.95. ISBN 0–02–917301–9

The Beatty Papers: Selections from the Private and Official Correspondence of Admiral of the Fleet Earl Beatty. Edited by Professor Bryan Ranft. Volume 1, 1902–1918. Scolar Pressfor Navy Records Society, 1989.Pp.xxiv + 592,6maps; £35 (non‐members). ISBN 0–85967–807–5

Charles Messenger, The Last Prussian: A Biography of Field Marshal Gerd von Rundstedt 1875–1953. London: Brassey's, 1991. Pp.xv + 367; 10 maps, 52 illus.; £24.95. ISBN 0–08–036707–0

Philip E. Tetlock, Jo L. Husbands, Robert Jervis, Paul C. Stern, and Charles Tilly (eds.)> Behaviour, Society and Nuclear War, Volume II. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1991. Pp.viii + 367, 4 line drawings; £40. ISBN 0–19–505767–8

Constantine C. Menges, The Twilight Struggle: The Soviet Union v. the United States Today. Washington DC: AEIPress, 1990. Pp.xix + 428, 5 maps; $21.95. ISBN 0–8447–3701–1

Benjamin Frankel (ed.), In the National Interest: A National Interest Reader. Lanham, Maryland: University Press of America, 1990. Pp.xiii + 426; $33.95 (hardback); $18.95 (paperback). ISBN 0–8191–7582‐X

John B. Poole (ed.), Independence and Inter‐dependence: A Reader on British Nuclear Weapons Policy. London: Brassey's, 1990. Pp.xiv + 307; £36/$57. ISBN 0–08–036691–0

Burns H. Weston (ed.), Alternative Security: Living without Nuclear Deterrence. Boulder, Colorado, San Francisco and Oxford: Westview Press, 1990. Pp.xv + 283, tables, biblio., index; $45 (hardback); $14.95/£9.95 (paperback). ISBN 0–8133–0629–9 and 0630–2

Regina Cowen Carp (ed.), Security with Nuclear Weapons? Different Perspectives on National Security. Oxford: Oxford University Press for Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, 1991. Pp.xiv + 396; £35 (hardback). ISBN 0–19–827839‐X

Earl H. Tilford, Jr., Setup ‐ What the Air Force Did in Vietnam and Why. Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama: Air University Press, 1991. Pp.xx + 307; (NP, but the book can be purchased in paperback from the US Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 20402.)

Barry Rubin (ed.), The Politics of Terrorism: Tenor as a State and Revolutionary Strategy. Washington, DC: Johns Hopkins Foreign Policy Institute, School of Advanced International Studies (also available from University Press of America, Inc.), 1989. Pp.xiv + 236; £14.95 (paperback) ISBN 0–941700–44–51

G. Davidson Smith, Combating Terrorism. London, Routledge, 1990. Pp.xi + 299, 9 illus.; £40. ISBN 0–415–03067–6

Donald Mackenzie, Inventing Accuracy: A Historical Sociology of Nuclear Missile Guidance. Cambridge, Massachusetts and London: MIT Press, 1991. Pp.xiii + 464, 32 diagrams, 8 photographs; £19.95. ISBN 0–262–13258–3

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