Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century  Audiobook, by Barbara Tuchman Play Audiobook Sample

Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century Audiobook

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Read By: Aviva Skell Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc. Listen Time: at 1.0x Speed 17.33 hours at 1.5x Speed 13.00 hours at 2.0x Speed Release Date: August 2015 Format: Unabridged Audiobook ISBN: 9781456125035

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The Bubonic Plague of the 14th century killed one third of all human beings in Europe and Western Asia; many who survived the plague killed each other in the Hundred Years War that followed. What was it like to live in this calamitous century, when knighthood (and much more) died a violent death?

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About Barbara Tuchman

Barbara Wertheim Tuchman was an American historian and author. She won the Pulitzer Prize twice, for The Guns of August and Stillwell and the American Experience in China.