Author: Bloch, Marc.
Title: Memoirs of war, 1914-1915.
Description: Cambridge U. P. 1988 Paperback, 180pp., ills. in b/w., in very good condition. Nearly new. ISBN 9780521379809. Great historians have seldom described the notable events in which they themselves participated. Marc Bloch - author of Feudal Society, the classic study of medieval social systems and co-founder of the influential French historical journal Annales - is an exception, In his powerful memoir The Strange Defeat, he analysed the fall of France in 1940 from the viewpoint of combatant as well as historian. And in his Memoirs of War, 1914-15, here in its first English translation (originally published in hard covers in 1980 by Cornell University Press), Bloch left a keen and affecting account of his earliest experience of war. Carole Fink's introduction includes a brief biography of Bloch, discusses the effect of the war upon his intellectual development, and assesses his achievements as a historian. Though Bloch survived the savage trench warfare of the First World War, he was shot by a Gestapo firing squad in 1944 for his participation in the Resistance. Trenchant, inspiring, and tersely written, Memoirs of War, 1914-15 is a monument to a great scholar and fierce patriot.
Keywords: Wereldoorlog I eerste wereldoorlog first worldwar one premiere guerre mondiale erste weltkrieg WOI WWI memoires herinneringen ooggetuigen front loopgraven trenches frankrijk franse historicus historian french france marc bloch
Title: Memoirs of war, 1914-1915.
Description: Cambridge U. P. 1988 Paperback, 180pp., ills. in b/w., in very good condition. Nearly new. ISBN 9780521379809. Great historians have seldom described the notable events in which they themselves participated. Marc Bloch - author of Feudal Society, the classic study of medieval social systems and co-founder of the influential French historical journal Annales - is an exception, In his powerful memoir The Strange Defeat, he analysed the fall of France in 1940 from the viewpoint of combatant as well as historian. And in his Memoirs of War, 1914-15, here in its first English translation (originally published in hard covers in 1980 by Cornell University Press), Bloch left a keen and affecting account of his earliest experience of war. Carole Fink's introduction includes a brief biography of Bloch, discusses the effect of the war upon his intellectual development, and assesses his achievements as a historian. Though Bloch survived the savage trench warfare of the First World War, he was shot by a Gestapo firing squad in 1944 for his participation in the Resistance. Trenchant, inspiring, and tersely written, Memoirs of War, 1914-15 is a monument to a great scholar and fierce patriot.
Keywords: Wereldoorlog I eerste wereldoorlog first worldwar one premiere guerre mondiale erste weltkrieg WOI WWI memoires herinneringen ooggetuigen front loopgraven trenches frankrijk franse historicus historian french france marc bloch
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- Book number: 3923
- Book number: 3923