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Strange Defeat
By Marc Bloch
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By Marc Bloch
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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 milita...