Defoe's Memoirs of a Cavalier

"I write this new preface in a day of extraordinary difficulty and danger. It's 1938. These are gloomy questions, but history's answered need not be gloomy," he writes. "The attainment of genuine peace should not be beyond the reach of human wisdom inspired by human goodwill." The book is based on Defoe's Memoirs of a Cavalier which Churchill called 'a great and influential book'