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- Paperback
784 pages
- Release Date
14 October 2017
Summary
A Distant Mirror: Life in 14th Century Europe
The fourteenth century: a time of fabled crusades and chivalry, glittering cathedrals and grand castles, but also ferocity, spiritual agony, chaos, and plague.
Barbara Tuchman masterfully reveals the contradictory images of this age, examining the great rhythms of history and the grain and texture of domestic life as it was lived: childhood, marriage, money, taxes, and war, dominating the lives of serf, noble, and clergy alike.
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780241972977 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0241972973 |
| Author: | Barbara Tuchman |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 784 |
| Release Date: | 14 October 2017 |
| Weight: | 536g |
| Dimensions: | 199mm x 130mm x 50mm |
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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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