A Distant Mirror
The Calamitous 14th Century
1978 · 704 pages
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.
★ 6.8
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The Thirty Years War
1938 · 520 pages
At twenty-eight Wedgwood narrated Europe's most ruinous pre-modern war whole, thirty years of armies eating Germany alive, and her verdict of meaningless conflict still has to be argued with.
★ 6.4