Description: A renowned historian and Resistance fighter--later executed by the Nazis--gives his firsthand perspective on why France fell in 1940.
Brief description: Marc Bloch was a French historian who cofounded the Annales School of French social history. He was captured and shot by the Gestapo in 1944 for his work with the French Resistance.
Review Quotes: The most wisdom-packed commentary on the problem set [before] all intelligent and patriotic Frenchmen by the events of 1940.--D. W. Brogan "Spectator"