A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century.
Tuchman, Barbara W.
Place Published: New York, N.Y.:
Publisher: Alfred A Knopf Inc,
Date Published: 1978.
Description: FIRST EDITION THIRD PRIINTING. The book has 677 pages with 5 maps, 40 illustrations and 8 color full page photos. The book is in VERY GOOD condition with deckled pages and a pencil mark on fly page and minor use marks. The jacket is GOOD with a closed tear on top and bottom of spine, crimping on top and bottom of jacket with wear on edges and corners. JMVintage specializes in Books, Magazines and Treasures related to the Duke and Duchess of Windsor and other curious subjects. The dust jacket reads:As the spine of her narrative, the author has chosen the history of one man-Enguerrand de Coucy VIII, "the most skilled and experienced of all the knights of France." We see Coucy orphaned by his father's death at Crecy and his mother's in the Black Death; inheriting the most awesome fortress in Europe, engaged in the war against England from the age of fifteen; a leader at eighteen of the suppression of the Jacquerie; a loyal subject of the King of France while simultaneously a son-in-law of France's enemy, the King of England. Warrior, envoy, councillor, and mediator, he twice refused the Constableship, the highest-and most lucrative-military office in France. We follow him through princely feuds and private wars, religious foundations, peace parley, and secret missions, to the culminating fiasco of knighthood, the last crusade of medieval Christendom. In this, her largest and most meaningful achievement, Barbara Tuchman lays before us one of the most tormented eras in hiuman history-and the door to our time.
Edition: First editionBinding: Hard Cover
Condition: Very Good in Good dj
ISBN: 0394400267
Book Id: 12087
Price: $9.00
