Book reviews.

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]