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Marc Bloch - A Life in History (Paperback, Revised)
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Marc Bloch - A Life in History (Paperback, Revised)
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A serviceable biography of French historian Marc Bloch, whose
career started literally days before WW I and ended with a hero's
death in 1944 while serving in the French Resistance during WW II.
Although highly regarded as a scholar (primarily for The Royal
Touch, French Rural History, and Feudal Society), Bloch was no
ivory-tower specialist. He came of age as the last ripples of the
Dreyfus Affair swept over France and personally experienced and
fought the revival of anti-Semitism between the wars. As an
intelligence officer during WW I, he had a firsthand view of
combat. Strange Defeat, his account of the happenings of 1918-40
that led to the defeat of France in 1940, is still considered one
of the definitive accounts of that period, even though Capt. Bloch
had at best a worm's-eye view of WW II as "Fuel King" (gasoline
supply officer) of France's last Army. Fink (History/Univ, of North
Carolina at Wilmington) makes much of Bloch's contributions to the
reform of historical study and research in particular and French
education in general, but most readers will find the more dramatic,
more personal details here of greater interest. (Kirkus Reviews)
The first biography of Marc Bloch (1886-1944), historian, soldier, and French Resistance martyr, is based on the private letters and diaries of the French-Jewish patriot as well as other unpublished documents.
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