New Releases by Hendrik Willem van Loon

The story of painting, sculpture, architecture, and music as well as all the so-called minor arts from the days of the cavemen until the present time.

Winner of the first John Newbery Medal in 1921, here is van Loon''s renowned classic record of historic adventure, updated for the 21st century.

"Adolf Hitler, in the book which he call My Battle (Mein Kamph), set forth his plan of action. Encouraged by his success in Central Europe, the Führer now turns his eyes toward world domination. Already his propaganda agents are at work in this hemisphere. Hendrik Willem van Loon, in a brilliant counterattack, shows how people who are still free must take up the struggle against Hitler"s growing power. Our Battle is a call to action -- a ringing defense of democracy faced by the threat of fascism everywhere."

We the Book Manufacturers'' Institute are engaged in a solemn endeavor to bring to fruition this co-operation among the several groups whose labors go into the making of a book, and one of the most agreeable tasks afforded us during the course of a year is the planning and preparation of a volume to be distributed at the annual Book Fair, the provision of a work which thousands will read and cherish as a souvenir of a truly memorable event. -- Foreword.