Volume 36, Number 13 · August 17, 1989

The Grand Decider

By Gordon A. Craig
The Warrior Queens
by Antonia Fraser

Knopf, 383 pp., $22.95

A Country Made by War: From the Revolution to Vietnam—The Story of America's Rise to Power
by Geoffrey Perret

Random House, 629 pp., $22.50

The Wages of War: When America's Soldiers Came Home—From Valley Forge to Vietnam
by Richard Severo, by Lewis Milford

Simon and Schuster, 495 pp., $21.95

Technology and War: From 2000 BC to the Present
by Martin van Creveld

Macmillan/Free Press, 342 pp., $22.95

Of Arms and Men: A History of War, Weapons, and Aggression
by Robert L. O'Connell

Oxford, 367 pp., $24.95

The Price of Admiralty: The Evolution of Naval Warfare
by John Keegan

Viking, 292 pp., $21.95

War: Ends and Means
by Paul Seabury, by Angelo Codevilla

Basic Books, 306 pp., $19.95

The Meaning of the Nuclear Revolution: Statecraft and the Prospect of Armageddon
by Robert Jervis

Cornell University Press, 266 pp., $21.95

In Two Noble Kinsmen, Shakespeare and John Fletcher apostrophized war as the



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