viii, 288pp. Blue cloth-covered boards; silver design on front, silver titles on spine; top text block edge sprayed red. 8vo. Sun-faded spine, rubbed corners and spine ends with cloth wearing. Top text block edge spine sun-fading. Endpapers starting to fox and tan; bookplate on front pastedown, volume quite loose, stain to fore edge of rear free endpaper. Otherwise, internally neat, clean and bright.
Austrian historian Stefan Zweig's Decisive Moments in History was first published in German in 1927. The first edition contained just five miniatures although through later editions that nunber grew to 14. Its first English translation was published in 1940 as The Tide of Fortune: Twelve Historical Miniatures, with the miniatures all relating to world-changing events in history.
