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of the fallout. Careful reading of this 1475), who wrote a Chronicle of rhe Uam, Adam B. Expansion and Coexistence: Soviet realistic.analysis will reward any mature Dukes of Burgundy; and La Marche Foreign Policy, 1917-1973 (Second Ed.) reader. (1425 to 1502), whose Memoirs cover a New York: Praeger Publishers period of some 70 years of French his- 797 pp., cloth $15.95, paper $6.95 SHERMAN D. SPECTOR tory (roughly 1430 to 1500) and who LC 73-8181 Russell Sage College held a somewhat pessimistic view of Publication Date: June 14,1974 man’s misery and the historian’s plight. Thomas Basin (1412 to 1491) and Ulam’s fist edition appeared in 1968 Archambault, Paul Philippe de Commynes (1447 to 151 1) (containing 22 fewer pages and costing Seven French Chroniclers: represent decided progress in medieval $3 less). He now offers his second edition Witnesses to History historiographical consciousness, claims whose only fundamental difference from Syracuse: Syracuse. University Press the author. The former, Bishop-author the first is the appending of two new 156 pp., $9.75, LC 73-16652 of histories of the reigns of Charles VII Publication Date: April 1974 chapters analyzing Soviet foreign policy and Louis XI of France begun and and relations since the August