A review by msrdr
A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century by Barbara W. Tuchman

4.0

It is easy to see why Tuchman won the Pulitzer twice. Her narrative style makes A Distant Mirror a page-turner. For a 600-page history of a century of European experience this is an achievement all on its own. A Distant Mirror is clever, and thoughtfully researched. Tuchman carefully digs into the details of her research and estimation of the times at appropriate and well balanced moments throughout the larger chronological narrative of the "geo-politics" of the century, at the same time as her story of Enguerrand VII de Coucy, the history's "hero" who's chronicle intersects the political history of France in interesting and impressive ways.