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ISBN-10: 0345349571
ISBN-13: 9780345349576
Publisher: Random House Trade
Publish Date: 07/12/1987
Dimensions: 8.20" L, 5.50" W, 1.70" H

A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century

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“Wise, witty, and wonderful . . . A great book, in a great historical tradition.” Commentary
The 14th century gives us back two contradictory images: a glittering time of crusades and castles, cathedrals and chivalry, and a dark time of ferocity and spiritual agony, a world plunged into a chaos of war, fear and the Plague. Barbara Tuchman anatomizes the century, revealing both the great rhythms of history and the grain and texture of domestic life as it was lived.

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"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
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ISBN-10: 0345349571
ISBN-13: 9780345349576
Publisher: Random House Trade
Publish Date: 07/12/1987
Dimensions: 8.20" L, 5.50" W, 1.70" H
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