“Beautifully written, careful and thorough in its scholarship . . . What Ms. Tuchman does superbly is to tell how it was. . . . No one has ever done this better.”
— The New York Review of Books
“A beautiful, extraordinary book . . . Tuchman at the top of her powers . . . She has done nothing finer.”
— The Wall Street Journal
“Wise, witty, and wonderful . . . a great book, in a great historical tradition.”
— Commentary
“marvelous history”
— Lawrence Wright, author of The End of October, in The Wall Street Journal
A Distant Mirror
Year
2011
Pages
738
Type
Nonfiction
Praise
“Beautifully written, careful and thorough in its scholarship . . . What Ms. Tuchman does superbly is to tell how it was. . . . No one has ever done this better.”
— The New York Review of Books
“A beautiful, extraordinary book . . . Tuchman at the top of her powers . . . She has done nothing finer.”
— The Wall Street Journal
“Wise, witty, and wonderful . . . a great book, in a great historical tradition.”
— Commentary
“marvelous history”
— Lawrence Wright, author of The End of October, in The Wall Street Journal
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