Books by Barbara Tuchman
Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century
by Barbara Tuchman
A much acclaimed history of European life in the 14th century. Tuchman paints a rich picture of late medieval Europe in all its glittering, rich detail, but reminds us that the same age was also an age of plague. She is constantly aware of the resonances between the story she is telling and that of her own (20th) century.
