THE WIND WILL NOT SUBSIDE. Years in Revolutionary China—1964‐1969. David Milton and Nancy Dail Milton. (Pantheon. $15.) The best account so far of the Cultural Revolution by two Americans sympathetic to the regime who witnessed it.

A WORLD DESTROYED. The Atomic Bomb and The Grand Alliance. Martin J. Sherwin. (Knopf. $10.) A superior account, using newly available material, of the development of the atomic bomb as a provocation to the cold war.

WORLD OF OUR FATHERS. Irving Howe. With the assistance of Kenneth Libo. (Harcourt. $14.95.) You don't have to be Jewish to appreciate a grand, affectionate book about the migration to America and cultural rooting of Eastern European Jews at the turn of the century.

Juvenile

AMISH PEOPLE. By Carolyn Meyer. Illustrated. (Atheneum/ McElderry. $5.95. Ages 12 ajd Up.) An excellent introduction to the Amish in which the author sympathetically describes the life, words and often curious and misunderstood customs of these Pennsylvania people.

THE CHURCH MICE SPREAD THEIR WINGS. By Graham Oakley. Illustrated by the author. (Atheneum. $7.95. Ages 4 to 7.) Fourth in a series about these mischievous little rodents. Oakley's illustrations of the mice, “tired of the rat race” and off on an expedition, provide hours on uninterrupted joy and humor.

DIVING FOR HORSES. By Patricia Windsor. (Harper & Row. $5.95. Ages 14 and Up.) A 17year‐old girl, her disheveled, raving mother, a forest lover, alcoholism and pregnancy are the ingredients Patricia Windsor mixes in a fine, powerful and literate book.

FREELON STARBIRD. By Richard F. Snow. Illustrated by Ben F. Stahl. (Houghton Mifflin. $7.95. Ages 12 and Up.) Two young men join the Revolutionary army and fight at White Plains, Trenton and Princeton. Mr. Snow has created a humorous, lively and sometimes ribald narrative filled with understanding as the soldiers become aware of issues, emotions and sacrifice.