La extraña derrota : Testimonio escrito en 1940

In the work of Marc Bloch, considered by some to be the greatest historian of the 20th century, this text occupies a very special place. Strange Defeat was his last book, in which he recounted his experiences during the collapse of France in 1940: a strange and shameful defeat he witnessed as a staff officer. To this impressive text, which serves as a kind of self-examination for a nation, have been added his clandestine political writings from the years he fought in the Resistance, until he was tortured and executed by the Gestapo in June 1944. This is a great history book that analyzes a society in crisis, one that surrendered too easily to Hitler's advance. But it is also the reflection of an intellectual who assumes responsibility for those who did not dare to engage with the problems of their time and demands that the historian contribute to changing the collective consciousness.