The Historian's Craft: Reflections on the Nature and Uses of History and the Techniques and Methods of Those Who Write It. by Marc Bloch - ★★★★

Powerful work that I heard about while in Europe and tracked down while still on the road in Barcelona. Marc Bloch was a historian at a tough time for historians. He fought the Nazis and was killed by the Gestapo. Along the way he wrote this powerful primer on the basics of history, the value of primary sources, the inability for history to be an exact formula like the sciences, but above all the importance in telling the history even in the toughest of times. A good read and a good man. Marc Bloch.