Purchase this and other timeless New Criterion essays in our hard-copy reprint series. Born in Lyon in 1886, Bloch was the scion of a family of Alsatian Jews who had become assimilated into French ...

Last Friday, France was again the stage for an act of Islamist terrorism. In the northern city of Arras, a young man of Chechen origin named Mohammed Mogouchkov confronted a group of professors ...

In the spring of 1944, the Gestapo picked up a slight, bespectacled man in his late 50s. Despite a disguise and false documents, they were able to identify their captive as Marc Bloch, lately a ...

Queen Mary University of London provides funding as a member of The Conversation UK. Before the European parliamentary election and turmoil that followed, French President Emmanuel Macron used the ...