Mussolini's Early Diplomacy. By Cassels Alan. (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1970. Pp. 425. $12.50.)

which explains why no one was designated as the editor of the volume. The papers were revised in the light of discussion but still stand as basically isolated treatments representing each of the writers' reflections upon an assigned topic. The book should be useful in introducing strategic thought to the more general reader, but the specialist is likely to be disappointed since little new is added.