Strange Defeat (Paper)
by
Marc Bloch
Book Details
Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
0393319113
ISBN-13
9780393319118
Publisher
WW Norton & Co
Imprint
WW Norton & Co
Country of Manufacture
US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jul 17th, 1999
Print length
204 Pages
Weight
244 grams
Dimensions
13.80 x 21.00 x 1.30 cms
Product Classification:
European historySecond World WarEuropean historySecond World War
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A renowned historian and Resistance fighter—later executed by the Nazis—gives his firsthand perspective on why France fell in 1940.
Marc Bloch wrote Strange Defeat during the three months following the fall of France, after he returned home from military service. In the midst of his anguish, he nevertheless "brought to his study of the crisis all the critical faculty and all the penetrating analysis of a first-rate historian" (Christian Science Monitor). Bloch takes a close look at the military failures he witnessed, examining why France was unable to respond to attack quickly and effectively. He gives a personal account of the battle of France, followed by a biting analysis of the generation between the wars. His harsh conclusion is that the immediate cause of the disaster was the utter incompetence of the High Command, but his analysis ranges broadly, appraising all the factors, social as well as military, which since 1870 had undermined French national solidarity.
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