A Signal Victory

By David Stacton

Book Overview

First published in 1960, A Signal Victory was David Stacton's eighth novel, and the first in what he envisaged as an 'American Triptych.' In this opening panel Stacton paints a vivid picture of the impact of two great civilisations upon each other.

Guerrero was a Spanish soldier, shipwrecked on the shores of Yucatan. Years later the Spaniards came as conquerors - but by this time Guerrero was a prince, had married a king's daughter, and would be a spearhead of resistance to the white-skinned invaders from the west. A Signal Victory is Guerrero's story - that of a man who found where his true loyalties lay, and pursued them to their inevitable end.

'A strange, outlandish, fearsomely intelligent novel: it has absorbed into its texture some of the hieratic society which it depicts with such brilliance.' Telegraph

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0571320120
• ISBN13: 9780571320127
• Release Date: August 2014
• Publisher: Faber Finds
• Length: 236 Pages
• Weight: 0.52 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.1" x 7.8"