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L'.S. DETERRENCE POLICY IN THE I ATI 1980s21. Brzezinski, Power and Principle, p.455.22. Ibid., p.459.23. Brown, Faces of Power, p.550; Garthoff, Detente andConfrontation, p.790.24. Documentation, 'Report of the President's Commissionon Strategic Forces (Excerpts): 11 April 1983," Survival25 (July/August 1983): 177.25. New York Times, May 30, 1982, quoted in RobertScheer, With Enough Shovels: Reagan, Bush and NuclearWar, 2nd. ed. (New York: Vintage Books, 1983),p.1(1.26. Leon Wieseltier, 'Madder than MAD,' New Republic,May 12 1986, p. 19.27. Annual Report to the Congress: Fiscal Year 1983,quoted in Barry R. Posen and Stephen Van Evera,'Defense Policy and the Reagan Administration: Departurefrom Containment,' International Securitv, 8(Summer 1983): p.29.28. Gray, Nuclear Strategy, p.99.29. Walter S. Jones, The Logic of International Relations,5th. ed. (Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1985),p.354.30. Stephenson and Weal, Nuclear Dictionary, p.94.31. D. Douglas Dalgleish and Larry Schweikart, 'Tridentand the Trident,' United States Naval Institute Proceedings,112 (June 1986): 76.32. Ibid, see also Aldridge, First Strike, p.96.33. documentation, 'Report of the President's Commission,'p. 182.34. Robert McNamara, Blundering into Disaster (London:Bloomsbury, 1987), p.98.Book ReviewIMAGES OF GALLIPOL1By P. A. Pedersen and Ross BastiannPublished by Oxford University PressPrice $35.Reviewed by Colonel John Buckley,OBE.THE book is based on an outstanding collectionof photographs held by Ross Bastiaan,a young Melbourne periodontist, who is aLieutenant Colonel in the Royal AustralianDental Corps, Army Reserve.Bastiaan discovered the photograph ofGallipoli whilst doing post graduate work inLondon. Most of the descriptive photographshave not been published before. Many exhibitthe work of the British 3rd Field Ambulance;but it is a most versatile portrayal of all sectionsof the British Armed forces on the Peninsula.The Royal Navy has not been forgotten andfeatures in many of the scenes. Bastiaan hasshown great enthusiasm over many years andhas visited Gallipoli to research his project andalso London.The narrative and explanatory notes havebeen written by Dr Pedersen whose researchand writing on the First World War are wellknown to most readers. His book on "Monashthe Military Commander" is a brilliant piece ofresearch and presentation.The quality of the photographs and theirreproduction in the book deserve special mentionas also does the introduction which takesup 25 pages. It sets the stage for what is tofollow.There are some excellent photographs of theBritish battleships Queen Elizabeth; Implacable;Inflexible; the Raglan class monitors;cruisers and others. An amazing show of navalstrength during the campaign. The naval heavybombardments were not appreciated by theTurks.Recently, I reviewed Hurley at Waranother outstanding photographic record ofWWI in France and the Middle East and WWIIin the Western Desert and Syria. Both bookswill be enjoyed by the general reader andhistorian.It is remarkable how books about WWI andWWII continue to be so very popular andachieve a ready sale. It looks as though themarket will never become saturated.Images of Gallipoli is an excellentpublication.MSBS In World War Two, by G.B. (Jumbo)Courtney, Collins Publishing 1986.Reviewed by Captain B.J. FugeTHE story commences with the SamuelJohnson quote, 'Every man thinks meanlyof himself for not having been a soldier, or nothaving been to sea', and subsequently describes