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A large collection of book reviews and recommendations is presented, including titles such as "Troublesome Young Men: The Rebels Who Brought Churchill to Power and Helped Save England" by Lynne Olson, "Team of Rivals" by Doris Kearns Goodwin, and "My Grandfather's son" by Clarence Thomas.

Reviews the book `Visual Quantum Mechanics, Selected Topics With Computer-Generated Animations of Quantum-Mechanical Phenomena,' by Bernd Thaller.

Reviews several books on the Cold War. `Venona: Soviet Espionage and the American Response, 1939-1957,' edited by Robert Louis Benson and Michael Warner; `The Secret World of American Communism,' by Harvey Klehr, John Earl Haynes and Fridrikh Igorevich; `The Amerasia Spy Case,' by Harvey Klehr and Ronald Radosh; `The Haunted Wood,' by Allen Weinstein and Alexander Vassilev.

Reviews the book `Floquet Theory for Partial Differential Equations,' by Peter Kuchment.

Reviews the book "Karl Marx's Theory of History: A Defence," by G.A. Cohen.

Reviews the book `Shakespeare,' by Kiernan Ryan.

A HISTORY OF BRITISH CAVALRY 1816–1919. VOLUME 8: THE WESTERN FRONT, 1915–1918 by the Marquess of Anglesey (Leo Cooper, Pen & Sword Books, London, 1997), £40.00, 397 pages NATO AND THE NUCLEAR REVOLUTION: A CRISIS OF CREDIBILITY, 1966–1967 by Helga Haftendorn (Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1996), £45.00, 446 pages GERMANY UNIFIED AND EUROPE TRANSFORMED: A Study in Statecraft by Philip Zelikow and Condoleeza Rice (Harvard University Press, London, 1996), £21.95, 493 pages RETREATING FROM THE COLD WAR: GERMANY, RUSSIA AND THE WITHDRAWAL OF THE WESTERN GROUP OF FORCES by David Cox (Macmillan, London, 1996), NPG, 185 pages NATO IN THE NEW EUROPEAN ORDER by Fergus Carr and Kostas Ifantis (Macmillan, London, 1996), £40.00, 158 pages AFTER RWANDA: THE COORDINATION OF UNITED NATIONS HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE edited by Jim Whitman and David Pocock (Macmillan, London, 1996), £45.00, 248 pages UN MALAISE: POWER, PROBLEMS AND REALPOLITIK by Geoff Simons (Macmillan, London, 1995), NPG, 340 pages LAW ON THE BATTLEFIELD By A P V Rogers (Manchester University Press, Manchester and New York, 1996), Hb £40/Pb £16.99, 170 pages THE ECONOMICS OF OFFSETS: DEFENCE PROCUREMENT AND COUNTERTRADE edited, by Stephen Martin (Harwood Academic Publishers, Amsterdam, 1996), NPG, 417 pages THE ARMS PRODUCTION DILEMMA: CONTRACTION AND RESTRAINT IN THE WORLD COMBAT AIRCRAFT INDUSTRY edited by Randall Forsberg (The MIT Press, London, 1994), Hb £39.95, Pb £15.50, 300 pages IN THE EYE OF THE STORM by Major General Patrick Cordingley (Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1996), £18.99, 272 pages ISLAM AND THE MYTH OF CONFRONTATION: RELIGION AND POLITICS IN THE MIDDLE EAST by Fred Halliday (I. B. Tauris Paperback, London, 1996) NPG, 248 pages PATHWAYS TO PEACE—THE ARAB‐ISRAELI PEACE TALKS by Dr Joel Peters (The Royal Institute of International Affairs, London, 1996), £12.95, 110 pages BRITISH MILITARY PLANNING FOR THE DEFENCE OF GERMANY, 1945–50 by Paul Cornish (Macmillan: Studies in Military and Strategic History, London, 1996), NPG, 211 pages THE IMPERIAL WAR MUSEUM BOOK OF THE WAR AT SEA: THE ROYAL NAVY IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR by Julian Thompson (Sidgwick & Jackson in association with the Imperial War Museum, 1996), £25.00, 279 pages SPEARHEAD FOR BLITZKRIEG’: LUFTWAFFE OPERATIONS IN SUPPORT OF THE ARMY 1939–1945 by General der Flieger Paul Deichmann, edited by Dr Alfred Price (Greenhill Books, London, Stackpole Books, Pennsylvania, 1996), £18.99, 159 pages SHARING SECRETS WITH STALIN—HOW THE ALLIES TRADED INTELLIGENCE, 1941–1945 by Bradley F Smith (University Press of Kansas), £35.00, 254 pages GRAVE OF A DOZEN SCHEMES—BRITISH NAVAL PLANNING AND THE WAR AGAINST JAPAN, 1943–45 by H P Willmott (Airlife Publishing), £24.95, 315 pages BLITZKRIEG by Len Deighton (Pimlico, London, 1996), £10.00, 295 pages. FIGHTER by Len Deighton (Pimlico, London, 1996), £10.00 BOMBER by Len Deighton, BBC Radio Collection, London, 1995, ISBN 0 563 38856–0, Four Cassettes, £9.99 THE ARMIES OF GEORGE S PATTON by George Forty (Arms and Armour Press, London, 1996), £20.00, 268 pages IMPERIAL ECHOES—EYE‐WITNESS ACCOUNTS OF VICTORIA'S LITTLE WARS by Robert Giddings (Jonathan Capes, London, 1995), £18.95, 260 pages FEMALE TARS: WOMEN ABOARD SHIP IN THE AGE OF SAIL by Suzanne Stark (Constable, London, 1966), £16.95, 205 pages [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

THE DAWN OF PEACE IN EUROPE by Michael Mandelbaum (The Twentieth Century Fund Press, New York, 1996), $19.95, 224 pages CHALLENGES FOR THE NEW PEACEKEEPERS edited by Trevor Findlay (SIPRI Research Report no 12, Oxford, OUP, 1996), NPG, 160 pages KNIGHTS IN WHITE ARMOUR by Christopher Bellamy (Hutchinson, London, 1996), £17.99, 272 pages THE PRICE OF THE PAST: RUSSIA'S STRUGGLE WITH THE LEGACY OF A MILITARIZED ECONOMY by Clifford G Caddy (Brookings Institution Press, Washington D.C., 1996), $26.95, 250 pages MILITARY LEADERSHIP: IN PURSUIT OF EXCELLENCE edited by Robert L Taylor and William E Rosenbach (Westview Press, Boulder, Colorado, 1996), NPG, 235 pages BREAKING RANKS: SOCIAL CHANGE IN MILITARY COMMUNITIES—THE INTERRELATIONSHIP OF DOMESTIC AND WORKING LIVES IN THE ARMED FORCES by Chris Jessup (Brassey's, London & Washington, 1996), £20.00, 213 pages CHANGING STEP FROM MILITARY TO CIVILIAN LIFE: PEOPLE IN TRANSITION by Ruth Jolly (Brassey's, London and Washington, 1996), £20.00, 178 pages THE RULES OF THE GAME: JUTLAND AND BRITISH NAVAL COMMAND by Andrew Cordon (John Murray, London, 1996), £30.00, 708 pages LEGACY OF THE SOMME 1916: THE BATTLE IN FACT AND FICTION by Gerald Gliddon (Sutton Publishing, Stroud, 1996) £19.99, 230 pages BRITISH BUTCHERS AND BUNGLERS OF THE FIRST WORLD WAR by John Laffin (Alan Sutton, Stroud, 1996) £9.99, 214 pages NAVAL AVIATION IN THE FIRST WORLD WAR—IT'S IMPACT AND INFLUENCE by R D Layman (Chatham Publishing, London, 1996), £22.50, 218 pages A FIGHTING RETREAT: THE BRITISH EMPIRE, 1947–1997 by Robin Neillands (Hodder & Stoughton, 1996), £20.00, 586 pages A MILITARY HISTORY OF IRELAND edited by Thomas Bartlett and Keith Jeffery (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1996), £40.00, 595 pages NAPOLEON: THE FINAL VERDICT edited by Philip Haythornthwaite (Arms and Armour, London, 1996), £20.00, 320 pages DIE HARD! DRAMATIC ACTIONS IN THE NAPOLEONIC WARS by Philip Haythornthwaite (Arms and Armour, London, 1996), £16.99, 256 pages 1812: THE GREAT RETREAT by Paul Britten Austin (Greenhill Books, London, 1996), £30.00, 464 pages OUR BONES LIE SCATTERED: THE CAWNPORE MASSACRES AND THE INDIAN MUTINY OF 1857 by Andrew Ward (John Murray, London, 1 996), £25.00, 703 pages HIRSCHFELD: THE STORY OF A U‐BOAT NCO 1940–1946 by Wolfgang Hirschfeld (Leo Cooper, Pen and Sword Books Ltd, Barnsley, 1996), £18.95, 253 pages WINDS OF CHANGE: THE END OF EMPIRE IN AFRICA by Trevor Royle (John Murray, London, 1996), £19.99, 308 pages A MOST DIPLOMATIC GENERAL: THE LIFE OF GENERAL LORD ROBERTSON OF OAKRIDGE by David Williamson (Brassey's, London, 1996), £25.00, 265 pages ONE LEG: THE LIFE AND LETTERS OF HENRY WILLIAM PAGET, FIRST MARQUESS OF ANGLESEY KG, 1768–1854 by (The Seventh) Marquess of Anglesey (Leo Cooper, 1996), £25.00, 432 pages SCAPEGOAT—GENERAL PERCIVAL OF SINGAPORE by Clifford Kinvig (Brassey's, London, 1996), £25.00, 278 pages [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The article reviews several books including "Karl Marx: His Life and Thought" by David McLellan, "Alienation: Marx's Concept of Man in Capitalist Society," by Bertell Ollman and "Grundrisse: Foundations of the Critique of Political Economy," by Karl Marx, translated by Martin Nicolaus.

Reviews the book "Unanswered Questions About President Kennedy's Assassination," by Sylvan Fox.

Reviews the teaching guide `Rendez-vous: An Invitation to French,` (`Instructor's Resource Kit,' `Instructor's Manual,' `Laboratory Manual,' `Tapescript,' `Workbook,' `Instructor's Guide for the Listening Comprehension Program,' `Testing Program'), by Judith Muyskens, Alice Omaggio Hadley, Claudine Convert-Chalmers, Myrna Bell Rochester, Particia Westphal, Michelle Sarner, Michael Leruth, Kathleen Cook and Jacqueline Bott-Van Houten.

Reviews the books `Bravo! Communication et grammaire,` by Judith A. Muyskens, Linda L. Harlow and Michele Vialet which includes an instruction manual, `Tapescript,` by Judith Muyskens, Linda L. Harlow, Gisele Loriot-Raymer, Marie-Claire Menard andLaurence Marion, which includes an exercise manual, and `Culture et literature,` by Jean-Francois Briere, Linda L. Harlow and Judith A. Muyskens.

Reviews the book "The Political Principles of Robert A. Taft," by Russell Kirk and James McClellan.

Reviews the book "Capable of Honor," by Allen Drury.

Reviews the book "James Forrestal: A Study of Personality, Politics, and Policy," by Arnold A. Rogow.

Reviews the books "The United Nations Reconsidered," edited by Raymond A. Moore and "Building the Atlantic Community," by Robert Strausz-Hupé, James E. Dougherty, and William R. Kintner.

Reviews two books. "The Churches and Rapid Social Change," by Paul Alirecht; "Man in Rapid Social Change," by Egbert de Vries.

Reviews the book "Intellectual Schizophrenia," by R.J. Rushdoony.

Reviews two books. "The Tragedy of American Diplomacy," by William Appleman Williams "What's Wrong With U.S. Foreign Policy," by C.L. Sulzberger.

The article reviews the book "Radical ecopsychology: psychology in the service of life," by Andy Fisher, the second edition.

The article reviews the book "Life on the brink: environmentalists confront overpopulation," edited by Philip Cafaro and Eileen Crist.

The article reviews the book "Global fever: how to treat climate change," by William H. Calvin.

The article reviews the book "Kivalina: A Climate Change Story" by Christine Shearer.

The article reviews the film "J. Edgar," starring Leonardo DiCaprio and directed by Clint Eastwood.

A review of the book "In Deep Water: The Anatomy of a Disaster, the Fate of the Gulf and How to End Our Oil Addiction," by Peter Lehner and Bob Deans, is presented.