Strange Defeat

Strange Defeat
AuthorMarc Bloch
LanguageFrench
PublisherSociété des Éditions Franc-Tireur
Publication date
1946
Publication placeFrance

Strange Defeat (French: L'Étrange Défaite) is a book written in mid-1940 by the French historian Marc Bloch, analyzing the then-ongoing Battle of France. Bloch was tortured and executed by the Gestapo in June 1944 for his participation in the French resistance. His book was published in 1946; English translations were published by Oxford University Press in 1949 and by W. W. Norton in 1968.

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