Prompt For Bloch

For those of you who have not yet posted for Bloch, just some thoughts and questions regarding the book:

First, Bloch is a French writer who was killed during the occupation of that country during the Second World War; he is our first author who is not an American nor lived in the United States.  How do you believe this differentiates him from other authors we have read stylistically and in terms of content?  Would this book have been the same from an American perspective?

Second, the annales school of history writing, founded in part by Bloch, sought to take all walks of life into account when writing history.  Taking that into account, what different groups does Bloch include in his book?  How does this differ from Prescott's "Great Man View of History"?

Also feel free to just talk about the book as you normally would.