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Prisoners of History: What Monuments to World War II Tell Us About Our History and Ourselves
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Author:
Keith Lowe
Publisher:
St. Martin's Press
Date:
December 8, 2020
A look at how our monuments to World War II shape the way we think about the war by an award-winning historian.
What The Reviewers Say
In this timely book, which neatly combines history, art criticism and travelogue, Lowe examines 25 monuments to the Second World War spread across three continents.
[Lowe's] descriptions and explanations are always thoughtful and evocative, sometimes controversial.
Among the many revelations in Keith Lowe’s new book is that the great second World War memorials across the globe are rarely, if ever, a simple tribute to those who served, suffered and died. The monuments are as much representations of our identities and ourselves and of the ways we choose to use and abuse history.
Lowe’s narrative analyzes artifacts such as a monument in Budapest that ignores Hungarian complicity in killings and slights the real victims, Hungary’s Jews.
