There is little general agreement about the battles which have most decisively changed the course of history. Those given the fullest description in this book have been chosen on two considerations: each has played a marked part in the making of history and each illustrates an important change in the making of war.
Written by an international group of first-rate scholars... .[the book] emphasizes both the theory and the practice of the French, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, and Yugoslav Communist parties....Recommended for specialized libraries."-Choice
Superb is the only term of description for this first (of a projected set of five) volumes containing all the surviving manuscripts originating with William Penn. . . . One can now more fully understand this extraordinary man's character--impetuous, careless, and disorganized in personal and business affiars, tactless yet burningly sincere and indefatigable."--Journal of American Studies
"A monumental volume. . . . [The editors] have produc...
The publication of this book finally places the exquisitely carved but little known monuments of Caracol with those of Quirigua, Copan, and Tikal. New breakthroughs in the decipherment of Maya text have enabled the graceful hieroglyphic inscriptions to be translated.
