A Distant Mirror
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A history book by Barbara Tuchman following a 14th-century French aristocrat through the calamities of that era — the Black Death, the Hundred Years' War, and the papal schism — as a mirror on modern times.
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Guns of August
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Tuchman's WWI history book
Both by Tuchman. Lloyd finds A Distant Mirror less famous but more personally enjoyable, set in the 14th century rather than WWI.
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Both by Tuchman. Lloyd finds A Distant Mirror less famous but more personally enjoyable, set in the 14th century rather than WWI.
"There's a book I always liked called A Distant Mirror. It's a history of a life led in the 14th century. The reason why it was called a distant mirror — she wrote this book in the middle of the Cold War when everybody was worried the wor..."
By the same author as Guns of August (Barbara Tuchman); less famous than Guns of August but personally more enjoyable to Lloyd
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"There's a book I always liked called A Distant Mirror. It's a history of a life led in the 14th century. The reason why it was called a distant mirror — she wrote this book in the middle of the Cold War when everybody was worried the world was goi..."
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