Strange Defeat
| Author | Marc Bloch |
|---|---|
| Language | French |
| Publisher | Société des Éditions Franc-Tireur |
Publication date | 1946 |
| Publication place | France |
Strange Defeat (French: L'Étrange Défaite) is a book written in mid-1940 by the French historian Marc Bloch. The book was published in 1946; in the meanwhile, Bloch had been tortured and executed by the Gestapo in June 1944 for his participation in the French resistance. An English translation was published by Oxford University Press in 1949 and by W. W. Norton in 1968.