Memoirs of War, 1914–15 - Softcover

Marc-bloch-carole-fink

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0521379806 ISBN 13: 9780521379809

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 1989

Synopsis

A French historian recounts his experiences as a soldier during World War I, including the Battle of the Marne and trench warfare in the Argonne Forest, largely based on a journal he kept at that time

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Synopsis:

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 1989
• ISBN 10: 0521379806
• ISBN 13: 9780521379809
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 184