Top five lists
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The Five Things thing:
Ask me for "top five" lists of pretty much anything, and I will list you my top five of that thing or things. (Assuming that I have a top five, or even any five, of the thing in question.)
oursinThe Five Things thing:
Ask me for "top five" lists of pretty much anything, and I will list you my top five of that thing or things. (Assuming that I have a top five, or even any five, of the thing in question.)
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Date: 2005-07-21 03:06 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-07-21 03:41 pm (UTC)Marc Bloch
Thomas Jefferson
Nelson Mandela
Horatio Nelson
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Date: 2005-07-21 03:48 pm (UTC)Totally with you on Cromwell, except when I'm wearing my architectural historian hat.
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Date: 2005-07-21 04:04 pm (UTC)Marc Bloch was a French medievalist of great distinction. His books include Les Rois Thaumaturges and La Societe Feodale. He was a founding editor of Annales.
He was decorated for bravery while serving in the French infantry as an NCO during WW1. Although well over age and a father of (I think) five kids he was under no obligation to serve again in 1939 but he did, as a staff officer in Belgium. He wrote a brilliant analysis of the debacle of May 1940, L'Etrange Defaite.
A jew, he was deprived of his academic positions and joined the resistance where he became a key leader in the Lyons area. He was arrested, tortured and executed by the Gestapo in 1944, one of Klaus Barbie's higher profile victim.
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Date: 2005-07-21 04:37 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-07-21 04:41 pm (UTC)