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A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century by Barbara Tuchman
35.00 NZD
Category: History
The fourteenth century was a time of fabled crusades and chivalry, glittering cathedrals and grand castles. It was also a time of ferocity and spiritual agony, a world of chaos and the plague.Here, Barbara Tuchmanmasterfully reveals the two contradictory images of the age, examining the great rhythms of ...Show more
The March Of Folly: From Troy to Vietnam by Barbara W. Tuchman
34.95 NZD
51.99 (32% off)
Category: Non-Fiction
From the distinguished American historian whose work has been acclaimed around the world, a remarkable study that penetrates one of the most bizarre and fascinating paradoxes in history: the persistent pursuit by governments of policies contrary to their own interests. Across the march of thirty centuri ...Show more
The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914 by Barbara W. Tuchman
33.99 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: good
"The diplomatic origins, so-called, of the War are only the fever chart of the patient; they do not tell us what caused the fever. To probe for underlying causes and deeper forces one must operate within the framework of a whole society and try to discover what moved the people in it."--Barbara W. Tuchm ...Show more
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