I have great pleasure in including in this issue a copy of the very stimulating lecture that Paddy Griffith gave at the last Partizan Press Napoleonic Weekend. Although it is outside our period, the next issue will include a review of Paddy's new book on the Western Front 1917-1918.

Readers of History Today may have seen a snippet about a new thrice yearly publication called War in History. Edited by Hew Strachan (European Armies and the Conduct of War) and Dennis Showalter, it interprets its subject as broadly as possible: it is as receptive to the study of classical or feudal warfare as to Napoleonic; it embraces the study of conflict at sea and in the air as well as on land; it views war in its economic, social and political as much as purely military aspects! The first issue does not have anything from our period, but there is a good debate on Paul Fussell at War, as well as an article by James Sadkovich on German Military Incompetence through Italian eyes, which I found very interesting. There are some informative book reviews, including one for Russel Weigley's Age of Battles. Individual subscriptions are £ 25 per year, contact Deborah Rowe on 071-873 6358 for details.