Books Received

Books Received

General

Advice for Advisors: Suggestions and Observations from Lawrence to the Present. By Robert D. Ramsey, III. Fort Leavenworth, Kans.: Combat Studies Institute Press, 2006. ISBN 0-16-076875-6. Notes. Appendix. Pp. v, 181. Paper. $18.00. This collection of 14 previously published items contains a series of first-hand reports from military advisors from T. E. Lawrence in Arabia to U.S. Marine and Army officers in Vietnam and Iraq; Global War on Terrorism Occasional Paper 19.

Atoms for Peace: A Future After Fifty Years. Edited by Joseph F. Pilat. Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007. ISBN 0-8018-8561-2. Charts. Appendixes. Bibliography. Index. Pp. xix, 364. Paper. $25.00. Twenty-five experts offer their views on nuclear proliferation, terrorism, and peaceful uses of nuclear power in the contemporary, post–Cold War world.

Brief Romanian Military History. By Calin Hentea. Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow Press, 2007. ISBN 0-8108-5820-7. Photographs. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Pp. xiii, 228. Paper. $55.00. The author presents an overview of military events in Romania from Darius I in the sixth century BC to admission to NATO in 2004.

Camouflage. By Tim Newark. New York: Thames & Hudson, 2007. ISBN 0-500-51347-3. Photographs. Illustrations. Bibliography. Index. Pp. 192. $45.00. This large format volume delivers a vividly illustrated and stylish account of military camouflage designs, mostly from the two World Wars, and their adoption by contemporary civilian fashion.

Council Unbound: The Growth of UN Decision Making on Conflict and Postconflict Issues after the Cold War. By Michael J. Matheson. Washington: United States Institute of Peace Press, 2006. ISBN 1-929223-78-1. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Pp. xvi, 422. Paper. $19.95. A former legal advisor to the U.S. Department of State analyzes the expanded, post–Cold War role of the Security Council in peacekeeping, post-conflict management and the current struggles over policy in Iraq.

Critical Issues in the History of Spaceflight. Edited by Steven J. Dick and Roger D. Launis. Washington: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 2006. SP-2006-4702. Photographs, Index. Pp. xi, 659. $25.00. The 18 sizeable and learned essays in this collection emerged from a meeting sponsored by NASA and the Air and Space Museum in 2005; they cover such topics as human versus robot exploration, motivations for exploration, and the state of space history.

Faith and Sword: A Short History of Christian-Muslim Conflict. By Alan G. Jamieson. London: Reaktion Books, 2006. ISBN 1-86189-272-1. Maps. Bibliography. Index. Pp. 256. $29.95. This brief overview of the interaction between Islam and Christendom from the era of the Prophet to today concludes that the contemporary violent situation is not just a continuation of the long religious struggle, but rather "a clash between secular materialism and a revived religion."

Finding Your Father's War: A Practical Guide to Researching and Understanding Service in the World War II US Army. By Jonathan Gawne. Philadelphia, Pa.: Casemate, 2006. ISBN 1-932033-14-9. Maps. Photographs. Illustrations. Appendixes. Index. Pp. x, 341. Paper. $24.95. This guide catalogues U.S. Army units (commands, groups, corps, divisions), outlines Army organization, and offers guidance on accessing various kinds of official records.

Mud: A Military History. By C. E. Wood. Washington: Potomac Books, 2006. ISBN 1-57488-984-2. Photographs. Appendix. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Pp. xvi, 190. $23.95. The stuff is ubiquitous and, in the temperate zone of the northern hemisphere, has had a major impact on combat, especially once machines began to contend with it.

New and Old Wars: Organized Violence in a Global Era. By Mary Kaldor. Palo Alto, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2007. ISBN 0-8047-5646-5. Tables. Figures. Notes. Index. Pp. xiii, 231. Paper. $21.95. The author first described "new war" in the 1998 edition of this work as being based on the politics of identity, decentralized violence, and an uncontrolled, global war economy and argued that the...