This book is a collection of ten papers on the Washington Naval Limitation Conference in the early 1920's. The emphasis of each paper is on the position of each of the participants of the conference. Since the book is rather short ' 319 pages ' the papers are not very detailed. These papers primarily stress the political and strategic aspects as they affected each participant. There is little on the technical effects although these were rather important (see A. D. Baker III's 'Battlefleets and Diplomacy' at www.warships1.com/W-INRO/INRO_Battlefleet.htm). The coverage of the U. S. and British positions offers little that is new, but the material on those of France and Italy is not so well known. There is a tendency to interpret the arms control negotiations from the viewpoint of Cold War arms control negotiations which leads to rather anachronistic interpretations.