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THE MEMOIRS OF FIELD-MARSHAL MONTGOMERY. Since Monty knows that he was always right and his critics always wrong, he can be irritating. But his recollections of World War II are important, candid and touched with unexpected humor.
LEYTE, by Samuel Eliot Morison. World War II's great naval battle, and one of the most important in the world's history, brought into focus as the twelfth volume of 14 that will rank among the most important of all naval writings.
HENRY ADAMS: THE MIDDLE YEARS, by Ernest Samuels. Henry Adams is immensely readable; his biographers and commentators almost never are. The second volume (one more to come) of an exceptional biography covers the 13 Adams years that show the touchy New England genius during his happiest and most human period.
THE ODYSSEY: A MODERN SEQUEL, by Nikos Kazantzakis, translated by Kimon Friar. Easily the poetry event of the year. Boldly picking up where Homer left off, Greek Author Kazantzakis (who died last year) takes Odysseus through ordeal by battle into the greater ordeal of the spirit and a search for God.