Marc Bloch A Life in History [Paperback]

This is the first biography of Marc Bloch (18861944), historian, soldier in both world wars, and leader of the Resistance, who was captured, tortured, and died a heroic death.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and French Resistance martyr, is based on the private letters and diaries of the French-Jewish patriot as well as other unpublished documents.The first biography of Marc Bloch (1886-1944), historian, soldier, and French Resistance martyr, is based on the private letters and diaries of the French-Jewish patriot as well as other unpublished documents.This 1991 book was the first biography of Marc Bloch (18861944), historian, soldier in both world wars, and leader of the Resistance, who was captured, tortured, and died a heroic death. Based largely on Bloch's private letters, diaries and papers, as well as on other unpublished documents, it traces the remarkable life of this French-Jewish patriot under the Third Republic. As an historian, Bloch is perhaps best known for The Historian's Craft, an inspiring set of meditations on his life's work, and as co-founder of the now legendary journal Annales, which gave rise to a major school of historical writing. Profoundly influenced by the dark events that shaped his era - world wars, anti-semitism, and totalitarianism - Bloch has become something of an intellectual hero of our century, his life an epitome of the endeavour to uphold, in the face of such events, the spirit of unfettered critical enquiry.List of illustrations; Preface; Acknowledgments; List of abbreviations; 1. Forebears; 2. Education; 3. The young historian; 4. The Great War; 5. Strasbourg; 6. L'histoire humaine; 7. The Annales; 8. Paris; 9. Strange defeat; 10. Vichy; 11. Narbonne; 12. The legacy; Appendix: selected bibliography of Marc Bloch's publications; Note of sources; Index. It is difficult to see how one could write a better biography of a complex, courageous, and brilliant man whose impact on twentieth-century hlãµ