Book · 1978 · Nonfiction
A Distant Mirror
The Calamitous 14th Century
Ballantine Books (Penguin Random House) · 704 pages
★ 6.8 editorial score
Tuchman holds the fourteenth century up as a mirror to our own: plague killing a third of Europe, a war without end, and one French nobleman whose life ran through all of it.
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