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Carefully chosen selections include original piano transcriptions by the composer of the tone poem Finlandia and Valse triste

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featuring early works that date from 1910-30

Chronicles of the Crusades most have colorful and mysteriousThis book features two eyewitness accounts of the Crusades: Villehardouin's Chronicle of the Fourth Crusade and the Conquest of Constantinople and Joinville's Chronicle of the Crusade of St. Lewis. A pair of engrossing narratives by actual participants, these are among the most authoritative accounts available of the medieval Holy Wars. They recount terrifying scenes from the battlefields that recapture the horror of warfare, and offer invaluable