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Reviews two books. "Which People's War? National Identity and Citizenship in Wartime Britain, 1939-1945," by Sonya O. Rose; "Half the Battle: Civilian Morale in Britain During the Second World War," by Robert Mackay.

The article reviews the book "Churchill's Empire: The World that Made Him and the World He Made," by Richard Toye.

Reviews several books related to historical record preservation in Great Britain. Includes the book 'Architectural Photoreproductions. A Manual for Identification and Care,' by Eleonore Kissell and Erin Vigneau; 'Parchment. The Physical and Chemical Characteristics of Parchment and the Materials Used in Its Conservation,' by Betty M. Haines.

Millennium: A History of Our Last Thousand Years. By Felipe FernSndez‐Armesto. London: Bantam Press, 1995. Pp.xvi + 830; £25. ISBN 0593 02529 6 The Next 500 Years: Life in the Coming Millennium. By Adrian Berry. London: Headline, 1995. Pp.338; £16.99. ISBN 07572 0987 1 The Age of Churchill and Eden, 1940–1957. By John Ramsden. London: Longman, 1995. Pp. x + 350; £55. ISBN 0 582 50463 5 The Winds of Change: Macmillan to Heath, 1957–1975. By John Ramsden. London: Longman, 1996. Pp. 496; £68. ISBN 0 582 27570 9 The Conservative Party and British Politics, 1902–1951. By Stuart Ball. London: Longman, 1995. Pp. X + 167; £5.65. ISBN 0 582 08002 9 From Salisbury to Major: Continuity and Change in Conservative Politics. By Brendan Evans and Andrew Taylor. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1996. Pp. vii + 288; £40 (hardback), £14.99 (paperback). ISBNs 0 7190 4290 9 and 4291 7 Country Before Party: Coalition and the Idea of ‘National Government’ in Modern Britain, 1885–1987. By G.R. Searle. London: Longman, 1995. Pp. ix + 309; £42 (hardback), £14.99 (paperback). ISBNs 0 582 20951 X and 20951 X. Winston Churchill's Last Campaign: Britain and the Cold War, 1951–1955. By John Young. Oxford: Clarendon, 1996. Pp. viii + 358; £40 (hardback). ISBN 0 19–820367 5 The Macmillan Years, 1957–1963: The Emerging Truth. By Richard Lamb. London: John Murray, 1995. Pp. 416; £25. ISBN 0 7195 5392 X The First New Left: British Intellectuals after Stalin. By Michael Kenny. London: Lawrence and Wishart, 1995. Pp viii + 216; £11.95. ISBN 085315 797 9 The Labour Party since 1945: Old Labour, New Labour. By Eric Shaw. Oxford: Blackwell, 1995, Pp.258; £40 (hardback), £12.99 (paperback). ISBNs 0 631 19655 2 and 19654 4 Goodbye to AH That. By Bryan Gould. London: Macmillan Press, 1995. Pp. ix + 293; £16.99. ISBN 0 333 63800 X Beveridge and Social Security: An International Retrospective. Edited by John Hills, John Ditch and Howard Glennerster. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1994. Pp.251; £35 (hardback). ISBN 0 19 828806 9 The Schuman Plan and the British Abdication of Leadership in Europe. By Edmund Dell. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1995. Pp.323; £35. ISBN 019 828 9677 British Economic Development since 1945. By Alan Booth. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1995. Pp.xiv + 166; £35. ISBN O 7190 4502 9 At The Cutting Edge: A Lifetime of Politics, Industry and Faith. By Fred Catherwood. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1995. Pp.232; £17.99. ISBN 0 340 64246 7 Ralph Richardson: The Authorised Biography. By John Miller. London: Sedgwick and Jackson, 1995. Pp.xv + 384; £16.99. ISBN 0 283 06237 1 From Empire to International Commonwealth: A Biography of Lionel Curtis. By Deborah Lavin. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1995. Pp. x + 373; £45. ISBN 0 19 8125126 6 Tribal Identities: Nationalism, Europe, Sport. Edited by J A Mangan. London and Portland, OR: Frank Cass, 1996. Pp. Xxx; £25 (hardback), £13.50 (paperback). ISBNs 0 7146 4666 0 and 42010 The First Teenagers: The Lifestyle of Young Wage‐Earners in Inter‐War Britain. By David Fowler. London and Portland, OR: The Woburn Press, 1995. Pp. ix + 212; £30 (hardback), £16 (paperback). ISBNs 0 7130 0195 X and 4018 1 War Culture: Social Change and Changing Experience in World War Two. Edited by P. Kirkham and D. Thorns. London: Lawrence and Wishart, 1996. Pp.xii + 273; £14.99. ISBN 0853 15824. The Study of Education. A collection of Inaugural Lectures, Volume 4, End of an Era? Edited by Peter Gordon. London and Portland, OR: Woburn Press, 1995. Pp.xxiv + 293; £35/$45. ISBN 0 7130 0196 8 The Politics of Irish Education, 1920–65. By S. Farren. Institute of Irish Studies, 1995. Pp.296; £16.50. ISBN 085389 595 3 The Troubles. Ireland's Ordeal 1966–1995 and the Search for Peace. By Tim Pat Coogan. London: Hutchinson, 1995. Pp.460; £20. ISBN 0 09 179146 4 Intimate Strangers: Political and Cultural Interaction between Scotland and Ulster in Modern Times. By Graham Walker. Edinburgh: John Donald, 1995. Pp.viii + 199; £18. ISBN O 5976 417 6. Men, Ideas and Tanks: British Military Thought and Armoured Forces 1903–1939. By J. P. Harris. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1996. Pp.vii + 342; £40 (hardback); £14.99 (paperback). ISBNs 07190 3762 X and 4814 1 Intelligence and Imperial Defence: British Intelligence and the Defence of the Indian Empire, 1904–1924. By Richard J. Popplewell. London and Portland, OR: Frank Cass, 1995. Pp.354; £40/$49.50 (hardback), £22.50/$29.50 (paperback). ISBNs 0 7146 4580 X and 4227 4 British Relations with the Malay Rulers from Decentralization to Malayan Independence 1930–57. By Simon C. Smith. Kuala Lumpur Oxford University Press (South East Asian Historical Monographs), 1995. Pp.234; £16.99. ISBN 967 65 3089 1 Britain's Triumph and Decline in the Middle East: Military Campaigns 1919 to the Present Day. By William Jackson. London: Brassey's, 1996. Pp.184; £30. ISBN 1 85753 123 X The Gulf War Did Not Happen: Politics, Culture, and Warfare Post‐Vietnam. Edited by Jeffrey Walsh. Aldershot: Arena, 1995. Pp.217; £12.95. ISBN 1 85742 286 4 Databases in Historical Research: Theory, Methods and Applications. By Charles Harvey and Jon Press. London: Macmillan Press, London, 1996. Pp.331; £14.99. ISBN 0 333 586 44 3 The History Today Companion to British History. Edited by Juliet Gardiner and Neil Wenborn. London: Collins & Brown, 1995. Pp. 840; £25. ISBN 1 85585 1784 Twentieth Century Britain: An Encyclopaedia. Edited by F. M. Leventhal. New York: Garland, 1995. Pp. xxxviii + 902; $95, ISBN 0 8240 7205 7 Brassey's Companion to the British Army. By Antony Makepeace‐Warne. London: Brassey's, 1995. Pp.416; £30. ISBN 1 85753 175 2 The Oxford Illustrated History of the Royal Navy. Edited by J.R. Hill. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995. Pp.496; £25. ISBN 019 211 67 54 [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Reviews two books related to military history. 'The Secret State: Whitehall and the Cold War,' by Peter Hennessy; 'Know Your Enemy: How the Joint Intelligence Committee Saw the World,' by Percy Cradock.