Tuchman's A Distant Mirror
1978 · Work
Barbara Tuchman's history of the 'calamitous 14th century', told through the life of the knight Enguerrand de Coucy.
On these timelines: The Hundred Years' War, Arts and Thoughts, Master
More from The Hundred Years' War
- Hundred Years' War (1337)
- Battle of Crécy (1346)
- Treaty of Troyes (1420)
- Crécy campaign (1346)
- Philip VI confiscates Aquitaine (1337)
- Henry V invades France (1415)
- Siege of Calais (1346)
- Edward III claims the crown of France (1340)
Around 1978
- Prague Spring (1968)
- The Troubles (1968)
- Chernobyl disaster (1986)
- Apollo 11 moon landing (1969)
- Iranian Revolution (1978)
- Watergate scandal (1972)
- Yom Kippur War (1973)
- Birth of hip-hop (1973)
- Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody (1975)
- Night Fever (Bee Gees) (1978)