A Signal Victory

<p>First published in 1960, <i>A Signal Victory</i> 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.<br><br>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. <i>A Signal Victory</i> is Guerrero''s story - that of a man who found where his true loyalties lay, and pursued them to their inevitable end.<br><br>''A strange, outlandish, fearsomely intelligent novel: it has absorbed into its texture some of the hieratic society which it depicts with such brilliance.'' <i>Telegraph</i></p>