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The article reviews several books about business including "British Merchants in Nineteenth-century Brazil: Business, Culture, and Identity in Bahia, 1808-1850," by Louise H. Guenther, "Factory Production in Nineteenth-Century Britain," edited by Elaine Freedgood, "Marriner's Yarns: The Story of the Keighley Knitting Wool Spinners," by George Ingle, "Class and Innovation - How Britain Became the First Industrial Nation," by Charles F. Foster and "The British Government and the City of London in the Twentieth Century," edited by Ranald C. Michie and Philip Williamson.

MILITARY SCIENCE SUN PIN: MILITARY METHODS Translated, with introduction and commentary by Ralph D Sawyer, with the collaboration of Meichün Lee Sawyer (Westview Press, Boulder, San Francisco and Oxford, 1995), NPG, 391 pages STRATEGIC ASSESSMENT 1995: US SECURITY CHALLENGES IN TRANSITION Edited by Patrick Clawson (Institute for National Strategic Studies, Washington DC, 1995), NPG, 205 pages DEFENCE OUTLOOK EASTERN EUROPE: MARKET STRUCTURES AND OPPORTUNITIES By Yvonne Headington and Robert Jarman (The Financial Times Management Report, London, 1995), £300, 132 pages INTERNATIONAL SECURITY CALL FOR FIRE: SEA COMBAT IN THE FALKLANDS AND THE GULF WAR By Captain Chris Craig (John Murray, London, 1995), £19.99, 320 pages THE ICARUS SYNDROME: THE ROLE OF AIR POWER THEORY IN THE EVOLUTION AND FATE OF THE US AIR FORCE By Carl H Builder (Transaction Publishers for the RAND Corporation, London, 1994), ISBN 1–56000–141–0, NPG, 299 pages CERTAIN VICTORY: THE US ARMY IN THE GULF WAR By Brig‐Gen Robert H Scales, Jr (Brasseys, London, 1994), NPG MILITARY HISTORY A HISTORY OF THE BRITISH CAVALRY 1816–1919 VOLUME 6:1914–1918 MESOPOTAMIA By The Marquess of Anglesey (Leo Cooper, London, 1995), £35.00, 198 pages THE ROYAL BRITISH LEGION GOLDEN BOOK OF REMEMBRANCE: A TRIBUTE TO THOSE WHO SERVED By Henry Buckton (Ashford, Buchan and Enright, Leather‐head, 1995), NPG, 189 pages REVOLT OF THE ADMIRALS: THE FIGHT FOR NAVAL AVIATION, 1945–1950 By Jeffrey G Barlow (Naval Historical Center, Department of the US Navy), NPG, 294 pages BARE FEET AND BANDOLIERS By David Shirreff (Radcliffe Press, London, 1995), £24.50, 337 pages THE HOOD BATTALION—ROYAL NAVAL DIVISION: ANTWERP, GALLIPOLI, FRANCE 1914–18 By Leonard Sellers (Leo Cooper, London, 1995), £25.00, 334 pages VICTORY MUST BE OURS: GERMANY IN THE GREAT WAR 1914–1918 By L Moyer (Leo Cooper, London, 1995), NPG PEACE, WAR AND RECOVERY By Kenneth Mercer (Bury Press, Wincanton, Somerset, 1995), NPG, 271 pages THE ARMIES OF WELLINGTON By Philip J Haythornthwaite (Arms and Armour Press, London, 1994), £20.00, 318 pages WHY THE ALLIES WON By Richard Overy (Jonathan Cape, London, 1995), ISBN 0–224–04172‐X, £20.00, 396 pages SHIPS IN THE MAKING: A HISTORY OF SHIP MODEL TESTING AT TEDDINGTON AND FELTHAM, 1910–1994 By David Bailey (Lloyds of London Press, London, 1995), NPG, 358 pages SANDTRACKS IN THE SUDAN By Sir Donald Hawley KCMG (Michael Russell (Publishing) Ltd, 1995), £16.95, 160 pages THE OXFORD HISTORY OF THE ROYAL NAVY Edited by J R Hill (Oxford University Press, 1995) £25.00, ISBN 0–19–211675–4 [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

MILITARY SCIENCE CHINA'S STRATEGIC SEAPOWER—THE POLITICS OF FORCE MODERNISATION IN THE NUCLEAR AGE By John Wilson Lewis and Xue Litai (Stamford University Press, 1995), £30.00, US$45.00, ISBN: 08047 2303 6, 394 pages SIGNALS FROM THE FALKLANDS—THE NAVY IN THE FALKLANDS CONFLICT AN ANTHOLOGY OF PERSONAL EXPERIENCE By John Winton (Lee Cooper, London, 1995), £18.95, 238 pages MILITARY READINESS—CONCEPTS, CHOICES, CONSEQUENCES By Richard K Betts (The Brookings Institute, Washington DC, 1995), NPG, 322 pages FEEDING MARS: LOGISTICS IN WESTERN MIDDLE AGES TO THE PRESENT Edited by John A Lynn (Westview Press, Summertown, Oxford, 1993), NPG, 326 pages INTERNATIONAL SECURITY SEA POWER AND INDIAN SECURITY By Rahul Roy‐Chaudhury (Brassey's, London, 1995), £29.95,222 pages INDO‐PAK NUCLEAR STANDOFF: THE ROLE OF THE UNITED STATES By P R Chari (Manohar, New Delhi, 1995), Rs. 350 BRITAIN, GERMANY AND WESTERN NUCLEAR STRATEGY By Christopher Bluth (Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1995), £45.00,305 pages TAKEN BY STORM: THE MEDIA, PUBLIC OPINION AND US FOREIGN POLICY IN THE GULF WAR Edited by W Lance Bennett and David L Paletz EUROPEAN SECURITY AND INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTIONS AFTER THE COLD WAR Edited by Marco Carnovale (St Martin's Press, London, 1995), £40.00, Index, ISBN 0–333–63210–9, 236 pages BETWEEN TOKYO AND MOSCOW: THE HISTORY OF AN UNEASY RELATIONSHIP, 1972 TO THE 1990s By Joachim Glaubitz (Hurst and Company, London, 1995) £39.50, 308 pages, ISBN 1–85065–236–8 MILITARY HISTORY THE LOST VICTORY: BRITISH DREAMS AND REALITIES By Correlli Barnett (Macmillan, London, 1995), £20.00 QALLIPOLI By Michael Hickey (John Murray, London, 1995), £19.95, 340 pages THE BRITISH PART IN THE KOREAN WAR, VOL II, AN HONOURABLE DISCHARGE By Anthony Farrar‐Hockley (HMSO, London, 1995), £59.00, 534 pages THE FORGOTTEN AIR FORCE: THE ROYAL AIR FORCE IN THE WAR AGAINST JAPAN 1941 –1945 By Air Commodore Henry Probert (Brassey's, London‐Washington, 1995), £35.00, 381 pages THE IMPERIAL WAR MUSEUM BOOK OF VICTORY IN EUROPE; THE NORTH‐WEST EUROPEAN CAMPAIGN 1944–1945 By Julian Thompson (Sidgwick and Jackson, London, 1994), £25.00,274 pages WARPATHS—TRAVELS OF A MILITARY HISTORIAN IN NORTH AMERICA By John Keegan (Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1995), £20.00, 370 pages THE ARMIES OF U. S. GRANT By James R Arnold (Arms and Armour, London, 1995), £20.00,288 pages AUTOBIOGRAPHY AND BIOGRAPHY THE DUKE AND THE EMPEROR By John Strawson (Constable, London, 1994), £16.95, 319 pages THE NIGHTINGALE'S SONG By Robert Timberg (Simon and Schuster, New York, 1995), $27.50, 544 pages [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Reviews the book "Woollen Manufacturing in Yorkshire: The Memorandum Books of John Brearley, Cloth Frizzer at Wakefield, 1758-1762," edited by John Smail.

The article reviews the book "Regions and Industries: A Perspective on the Industrial Revolution in Britain," edited by Pat Hudson.

Reviews the book "Capitalism at War: Industrial Policy and Bureaucracy in France: 1914-1918," by John F. Godfrey.

Reviews the book "European Textile Printers in the Eighteenth Century: A Study of Peel and Oberkampf," by S. D. Chapman and S. Chassagne.

Reviews the book "Introduction to the Principles and Practice of Soil Science," by E. White.

Reviews the book "The Age of Manufacturers, 1700-1820: Industry, Innovation and Work in Britain," by Maxine Berg.

Reviews the book "Gainful Pursuits: The Making of Industrial Europe, 1600-1914," by Jordan Goodman and Katrina Honeyman.

The article reviews the book "Manual Planktonic Foraminifera," by J. A. Postuma.

Reviews the book "The Wool Textile Industry in Great Britain," edited by J. Geraint Jenkins.

The article reviews the book "Warp and Weft: The Somerset and Wiltshire Woollen Industry," by Kenneth H. Rogers.

Reviews the book "Wiltshire and Somerset Woollen Mills," by Kenneth Rogers.

Reviews the book "L'Economie de la Grande Bretagne Victorienne," by Francois Crouzet.