Barbara Tuchman

From the precipitous plunge into war and the brutal and bloody battles of August 1914, this book shows how events were propelled by a horrific logic which swept all sides up in its unstoppable momentum. Meer

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. Meer