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Books reviewed:The Fateful Split: Catholics and the Royal Ulster Constabulary, by Chris Ryder. Methuen. 360pp.£17.99.The IRA at War 1916–1923, by Peter Hart. Oxford University Press. 290pp.£25.00.Peace in Ireland: The War of Ideas, by Richard Bourke. Pimlico. 462pp.£10.00 (pb).War and Genocide, Organised Killing in Modern Society, by Martin Shaw. Polity. xii+ 257pp.£15.99 (pb) and£55.00 (hb).The Spectre of Genocide. Mass Murder in Historical Perspective, edited by Robert Gellately and Ben Kiernan. Cambridge University Press. x+ 396pp.£16.95.New Labour's Pasts: The Labour Party and its Discontents, by James E. Cronin. Pearson Longman. 497 pp.£25.00The Long Search for a Third Way—The British Labour Party and the Italian Left since 1945,by Ilaria Favretto. Palgrave. 233pp.£47.50.Organised Crime and the Challenge to Democracy, edited by Felia Allum and Renate Siebert. Routledge. xiv+ 238pp.£ 65.00.The Conservatives in Crisis: The Tories after 1997, edited by Mark Garnett and Philip Lynch. Manchester University Press. 272 pp.£14.99.Hellfire Nation: The Politics of Sin in American History,James A. Marone. Yale University Press. xii+ 575 pp.£25.00.Jewish Workers and the Labour Movement. A Comparative Study of Amsterdam, London and Paris, 1870–1914, by Karin Hofmeester. Ashgate. xv+ 346 pp.£ 57.50.In Search of Revolution. International Communist Parties in the Third Period, edited by Matthew Worley. I.B. Tauris. 400 pp.£45.00.Cold War, Crisis and Conflict. The CPGB 1951–68, by John Callaghan. Lawrence&Wishart. 320 pp.£14.99.The Paradox of Choice: Why More Is Less,by Barry Schwartz. Harper Collins (USA). 266 pp. US$23.95. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]