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Tonie and Valmie Holt, My Boy Jack? The Search for Kipling's Only Son. Barnsley: Leo Cooper, 1998. Pp.xx + 234, 2 maps, 14 illus., index. £19.95. ISBN 0–8505–24075.

Alex King, Memorials of the Great War in Britain. Oxford, Berg, 1998. Pp.xii + 274, 30 illus., bibliog., index. £39.99 (cloth); £14.99 (paper). ISBN 1–85973–983–0 and ‐988–1.

James Dorrian, Storming St. Nazaire. The Gripping Story of the Dock‐Busting Raid, March 1942. London: Leo Cooper, 1998. Pp.xv + 304, 43 photos, 7 maps, bibliog., index. £19.95. ISBN 0–85052–419–9.

Kenneth Wynn, U‐Boat Operations of the Second World War. Volume 1: Career Histories U1‐U510, Volume 2: Career Histories U511‐UIT25. London: Chatham Publishing, 1997/1998. Vol.1: Pp.362, 9 maps, bibliog., 9 appendices; £30. ISBN 1–86176–024–8. Vol.2: Pp.312, 9 maps, bibliog., 9 appendices. £30. ISBN 1–86176–069–8

Ted Galen Carpenter (ed.), Delusions of Grandeur. The United Nations and Global Intervention. Washington, DC: CATO Institute, 1997. Pp.xi + 268, index. $US 19.95 (cloth); $10.95 (paper). ISBN 1–88–2577–50–7.

Fergus Carr and Kostar Ifantis, NATO and the New European Order. London: Macmillan Press Ltd, and New York: St. Martin's Press, 1996. Pp.xiii + 178, bibliog., index. £27.60. ISBN 0–312–15815–7.

Clay Clemens (ed.), NATO and the Quest for Post‐Cold War Security. Basingstoke and London: Macmillan Press, and New York: St. Martin's Press, 1997. Pp.xvii + 210, index. £42.50 (cloth). ISBN 0–333–71641–8 (Great Britain) and 0–312–17603–1 (USA).

Barry R. Schneider and William L. Dowdy (eds.), Pulling Back from the Nuclear Brink: Reducing and Countering Nuclear Threats. London and Portland, OR: Frank Cass, 1998. Pp.xiv + 309, index. £37.50/$52.50 (cloth); £17.50/$19.50 (paper). ISBN 0–7146–4856–6 and 4412–9.

Keith B. Payne, Deterrence in the Second Nuclear Age. Lexington, KT: The University Press of Kentucky, 1996. Pp.xiv + 168, index. $14.95. ISBN 0–8131–0895–0.