A Distant Mirror by Barbara Tuchman - ISBN: 9780241972977
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Medieval Europe: Grandeur and agony intertwine in a time of chaos.
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A Distant Mirror

The Calamitous 14th Century

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    784 pages

  • Release Date

    15 October 2017

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Summary

A classic history of fourteenth-century Europe, from the Pulitzer-Prize winning author of The Guns of August

The fourteenth century was a time of fabled crusades and chivalry, glittering cathedrals and grand castles. It was also a time of ferocity and spiritual agony, a world of chaos and the plague.

Here, Barbara Tuchman masterfully reveals the two contradictory images of the age, examining the great rhythms of history and the grain and texture of domestic life as it was live…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780241972977
ISBN-10:0241972973
Author:Barbara Tuchman
Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd
Imprint:Penguin Books Ltd
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:784
Release Date:15 October 2017
Weight:536g
Dimensions:197mm x 131mm x 51mm
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Critics Review

A beautiful, extraordinary book … Tuchman at the top of her powers … She has done nothing finer

A beautiful, extraordinary book … Tuchman at the top of her powers … She has done nothing finer * Wall Street Journal *Wise, witty, and wonderful … a great book, in a great historical tradition * Commentary *Beautifully written, careful and thorough in its scholarship … What Ms. Tuchman does superbly is to tell how it was… . No one has ever done this better * New York Review of Books *

About The Author

Barbara Tuchman

Barbara Tuchman achieved prominence as a historian with The Zimmerman Telegram and international fame with the Pulitzer-Prize winning The Guns of August. She is also the author of The Proud Tower, Stilwell and the American Experience in China (also awarded the Pulitzer Prize), A Distant Mirror and The March of Folly. She died in 1989. The Guns of August and The Proud Tower are published by Penguin.

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