Philip Towle, Enforced Disarmament: From the Napoleonic Campaigns to the Gulf War (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1997), x + 268 pp., £35 (hb), ISBN 0–19–820636–4.
Paul K. Davis, 100 Decisive Battles: From Ancient Times to the Present (Oxford and Santa Barbara, CA: ABC‐Clio, 2000), 474 pp., £59.95 (hb), ISBN 1–57607–0751.
David Nicholls, Napoleon: A Biographical Companion (Oxford: ABC‐Clio, 2000), 340 pp., £29.95 (hb), ISBN 0–87436–957–6.
The Satow Siam Papers: The Private Diaries and Correspondence of Ernest Satow, vol. i, 1884–1885, introduced and edited by Nigel Brailey (Bangkok: The [Thai] Royal Historical Society, 1997), iv + 203 pp., price not obtainable, ISBN 974–89918–7–3.
Ernest Satow, C.M.G., A Diplomat in Siam: H.B.M. Minister‐Resident, Bangkok, 1885–88, introduced and edited by Nigel Brailey (Bangkok: Orchid Press, rev. edn. 2000), 208 pp., price not obtainable, ISBN 074–8304–73–6.
John Lukacs, Five Days in London, May 1940 (New Haven CT: Yale University Press, 1999), viii + 236 pp., £12.95, ISBN 0–300–08030–1.