A slim book which expands, through reprinting some newspaper articles and the Chichele Lectures at Oxford, and brings the ideas of the outspoken field-marshal up to date. There's bite and challenge to his direct approach; he reports his conversations with Khrushchev in a way to support his contention that we have a new set of conditions to be met with a new set of flexible, informed, decisions. Implicitly critical at times- strongly advocating Mr. Macmillan's position, these studies belong in the current scene.