Prisoners of History
What Monuments to the Second World War Tell Us About Our History and Ourselves
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Keith Lowe
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A Times and Sunday Times Best Book of 2020
A Mail on Sunday Book of the Year 2020
Humankind has always had the urge to memorialise, to make physical testaments to the past. There’s just one problem: when we carve a statue or put up a monument, it can wind up holding us hostage to bad history.
In this extraordinary history book, Keith Lowe uses monuments from around the world to show how different countries have attempted to sculpt their history in the wake of the Second World War, and what these memorials reveal about their politics and national identity today.
Amongst many questions, the book asks: What does Germany signal to today’s far right by choosing not to disclose the exact resting place of Hitler? How can a bronze statue of a young girl in Seoul cause mass controversy? What is Russia trying to prove and hide, still building victory monuments at a prolific rate for a war now seventy years over?
As many around the world are questioning who and what we memorialise, Prisoners of History challenges our idea of national memory, history, and the enormous power of symbols in society today.
©2020 Keith Lowe (P)2020 HarperCollins Publishers Limited
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"Such a provocative perspective makes Lowe’s choice of monuments important. The well-balanced range here enables the retelling of some remarkable war stories, while also providing fascinating insights into the ways different nations have remembered or denied issues around national identity and the glory and horrors of war...this is some of the most thought-provoking writing about the Second World War that I have [listened to] for a long while." (Spectator)
"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 is a fine guide to these monuments because he feels the moral force — for good or bad — of each site he visits." (The Times, Book of the Week)
"Time after time throughout Prisoners of History, Keith Lowe’s commentaries are more articulate and supple than the monuments they describe, interpret and criticise." (The Literary Review)
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Gesamt5 out of 5 stars
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Geschichte5 out of 5 stars
- Oliver Jütting
- 13.12.2020
Insightful and well-written
Fascinating book, not about World War II, but of our struggles and efforts to remember it by introducing us to 25 different WWII memorials all over Europe, North America and Asia. The analyses provided are always critical, but at the same time compassionate and erudite.
Read by the author himself, who has a pleasant voice and does an excellent job. Highly recommended.
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