This book reports facts and nothing but facts-facts which have all been published before. And yet it is a truly important work destined to have a great educational effect. It is a history of India's peaceful. struggle for liberation under Gandhi's guance. All that happened there came about in our time-under our very eyes. What makes the book into a most effective work of art is simply the choice and arrangement of the facts reported. It is the skill of the born historian, in whose hands the various threads are held together and woven into a pattern from which a complete picture emerges.