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Rating: 4.5 stars
Tuchman covers the "calamitous 14th century" with a writing style that is easy to digest despite being rather detailed. This isn't just a military history focused on kings. It is a descriptive, energetic and engaging history that includes: politics and relationships within and between England, France and the Italian city states, the various kings, nobles, popes, prelates and rebels; various disastrous wars between England and France with the resulting pillaging and depredation ...more
Tuchman covers the "calamitous 14th century" with a writing style that is easy to digest despite being rather detailed. This isn't just a military history focused on kings. It is a descriptive, energetic and engaging history that includes: politics and relationships within and between England, France and the Italian city states, the various kings, nobles, popes, prelates and rebels; various disastrous wars between England and France with the resulting pillaging and depredation ...more
Feb 25, 2017
Michael Seminack
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Lena Dreves
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