{"title":"Books by Marc Bloch","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"9780415738682","title":"Feudal Society","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn this outstanding and magisterial work, which has introduced generations of readers to the feudal period, Marc Bloch treats feudalism as living, breathing force in Western Europe from the ninth to the thirteenth century. Bloch said that his goal in writing \u003cem\u003eFeudal Society\u003c\/em\u003e was to go beyond the technical study a medievalist would typically write and 'dismantle a social structure.' For Bloch, history is a process of constant evolution and he brilliantly describes the slow process by which feudal societies turned into what would become nation states. A \u003cem\u003etour de force\u003c\/em\u003e of historical writing, \u003cem\u003eFeudal Society\u003c\/em\u003e is essential reading for anyone interested in both Western Europe's past and present.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith a new foreword by Geoffrey Koziol\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56288729792885,"sku":"9780415738682","price":24.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780415738682_0686aa80-517c-4a4d-9cd9-ac6819a80a60.jpg?v=1786013525"},{"product_id":"9780393319118","title":"Strange Defeat (Paper)","description":"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 military failures he witnessed, examining why France was unable to respond to attack quickly and effectively. He gives a personal account of the battle of France, followed by a biting analysis of the generation between the wars. His harsh conclusion is that the immediate cause of the disaster was the utter incompetence of the High Command, but his analysis ranges broadly, appraising all the factors, social as well as military, which since 1870 had undermined French national solidarity.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56289669349749,"sku":"9780393319118","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780393319118_24af572d-651a-4eab-806f-c86727f2877d.jpg?v=1786014173"},{"product_id":"9780719032929","title":"The Historian's Craft","description":"This work, by the co-founder of the \"Annales School\" deals with the uses and methods of history. It is useful for students of history, teachers of historiography and all those interested in the writings of the Annales school. -- .\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback \/ softback","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56296644673909,"sku":"9780719032929","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780719032929_d22bbfe3-588b-442d-aaa7-885b5e4fc17a.jpg?v=1786014736"},{"product_id":"memoirs-of-war-1914-15","title":"Memoirs of War, 1914–15","description":"Historians can bear penetrating witness to the great events they experience firsthand. One who unquestionably did so was Marc Bloch, the eminent French scholar, author of the esteemed Feudal Society, and co-founder of the influential journal Annales, who documented the fall of France in his powerful and well-known World War II memoir, Strange Defeat. Bloch also left an unfinished account of his combat experience in World War I, Memoirs of War, 1914–15.   In the Memoirs, which Bloch wrote in 1915 and 1916, he narrates his experience in the agonizing retreat from the Belgian border at the outset of the war, the Battle of Marne, and the establishment of trench warfare in the Argonne Forest. This tense, trenchant account contains poignant sketches of fellow soldiers, reflections on cowardice and bravery, and commentary on France’s conduct of the war. Memoirs of War, 1914–15 reveals not only the young Marc Bloch’s talents as a critical observer, but also the same courage and fierce patriotism that he was to demonstrate a quarter of a century later as a World War II officer and Resistance leader.   This translation (first published in 1980, reissuing the new edition of 1988) is by Carole Fink, who has assembled vivid period photographs and documents to illustrate the text and has written an extended introduction in which she places Marc Bloch’s World War I experiences in context and analyzes the war’s impact on his future intellectual development.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57679970566517,"sku":"9781041543954","price":171.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781041543954.jpg?v=1792422775"}],"url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/collections\/author-marc-bloch.oembed","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}