Recommended. General readers through faculty; professionals.
CHOICE
It is certainly groundbreaking, and deserves a place on the bookshelf of any reader interested in irregular warfare.
Journal of Military History
This book assembles a very useful selection of introductions to counterinsurgency relocation, including some (notably ... those in Cuba, South Africa, and Vietnam) which are excellent stand-alone summaries.
Journal of Contemporary History
This is a fascinating, ground-breaking book that shows how so many counter-insurgency campaigns have used relocation and ‘concentration’ as an operational method against subject populations in revolt and during conflict, often on misplaced intelligence assessments.
Matthew Hughes, Professor of Military History, Brunel Univeristy, UK