When he fled Austria in 1938, Ludwig von Mises, regarded as one of the unsurpassed economists of the twentieth century, left behind a wealth of writings that, he supposed, were lost forever. Seized by the Nazi Gestapo, the papers were subsequently captured by the Soviet KGB and were archived in Moscow. Their discovery in 1994, by Professors Richard and Anna Ebeling, received widespread attention. The Liberty Fund has now made available these long-lost writings, many of which have not previously appeared in English. In this, the first of the two volumes to be published are separate previously unpublished works that Mises wrote from 1940 to 1944, when much of the world was at war. Volumes 1 and 2 of the series are scheduled for publication in 2001 and 2002, respectively. Volume 1 will be Early Published and Unpublished Papers, 1905-1939; Volume 2 will be Personal and Professional Papers, Correspondence, and Reviews, 1881-1940. The papers include "Guiding Principles for the Reconstruction of Austria" (1940); "An Eastern Democratic Union: A Proposal for the Establishment of a Durable Peace in Eastern Europe" (1943); "Aspects of American Foreign Trade Policy" (1943); "Mexico's Economic Problems" (1943); "The Main Issues in Present-Day Monetary Controversies" (1944); and, "A Non-Inflationary Proposal for Post-War Monetary Reconstruction" (1944).