Britain's Civil Wars: Counterinsurgency inthe Twentieth Century, by Charles Townshend. London: Faber and Faber, 1986. 220 pages. £14.95.

Terrorism and the Liberal State, second edition, by Paul Wilkinson. London: Macmillan, 1986. 332 pages. £25.

The Financing of Terror, by James Adams. London: New English Library, 1986. 293 pages. £12.95.

Terrorism: How the West Can Win, by Benjamin Netanyahu. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1986. 254 pages. $18.95.

Political Murder: From Tyrannicide to Terrorism, by Franklin L. Ford. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1985. 440 pages. $29.50.