Prisoners of History: What Monuments Tell Us About Our History .9780008339555

Product detailsPrisoners of History: What Monuments to the Second World War Tell Us About Our History and Ourselves by Keith Lowe (Paperback, 2020)Books, Comics & Magazines > Textbooks, Education & Reference > Adult Learning & UniversityProduct Information\nA Spectator Book of the Year 2020 A Times and Sunday Times Best Book of 2020 A Mail on Sunday Book of the Year 2020 'Inspired ... Lowe's sensitive, disturbing book should be compulsory reading for both statue builders and statue topplers' MAX HASTINGS, SUNDAY TIMES What happens when our values change, but what we have set in stone does not? 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 e