Reviews - A Distant Mirror

397 reviews for:

A Distant Mirror

Barbara W. Tuchman

4.06 AVERAGE

sjcupertino's review against another edition

4.25

challenging informative reflective slow-paced

briannap's review against another edition

4.0

informative reflective tense slow-paced

littlepanda's review against another edition

3.0

Good book with a lot of historical background. A great book if you study the Middle Ages.

mbondlamberty's review against another edition

4.0

I thought I might have read this earlier and I have but can't honestly recall.
I listened to this which is always fund when the narrator has a proper English accent.
If you are student of European history, this is a treasure trove on the 14th century in general and 100 years war in particular, focusing on a few key personages.
If, however you are a student of world history, this is possibly not your cup of tea. For one, they make some errors like calling Tamerlane a Mongol. For another while the analysis and comparison to WWI and WWII is a valid one, it leaves out a bit of the rest of the world in the analysis. I did think that looking to an event like the Avignon Papacy as the precursor to the Reformation was solid.