A Distant Mirror
The Calamitous 14th Century
$36.28
- Paperback
784 pages
- Release Date
12 July 1987
Summary
Two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Barbara Tuchman proves her talent for seeking out characters at all levels of society in this beautifully repackaged and reissued edition of her grand portrait of 14th-century Europe.
A “marvelous history” of medieval Europe, from the bubonic plague and the Papal Schism to the Hundred Years’ War, by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Guns of August.
The fourteenth century reflects two contradictory images—on the one hand…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780345349576 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0345349571 |
| Author: | Barbara W. Tuchman |
| Publisher: | Random House USA Inc |
| Imprint: | Ballantine Books Inc. |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 784 |
| Release Date: | 12 July 1987 |
| Weight: | 619g |
| Dimensions: | 210mm x 141mm x 41mm |
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Critics Review
“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.” – The New York Review of Books
“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.”—The New York Review of Books
“A beautiful, extraordinary book … Tuchman at the top of her powers … She has done nothing finer.”—The Wall Street Journal
“Wise, witty, and wonderful … a great book, in a great historical tradition.”—Commentary
About The Author
Barbara W. Tuchman
Barbara W. Tuchman (1912-1989) achieved prominence as a historian with The Zimmermann Telegram and international fame with The Guns of August-a huge bestseller and winner of the Pulitzer Prize. Her other works include Bible and Sword, The Proud Tower, Stilwell and the American Experience in China (for which Tuchman was awarded a second Pulitzer Prize), Notes from China, A Distant Mirror, Practicing History, The March of Folly, and The First Salute.
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